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EU rules UK data protection is ‘adequate’ in boost for business

Long-awaited decision allows information to continue to flow to and from Britain

British data protection standards are “adequate”, the EU has ruled in a long-awaited decision that lets digital information continue to flow between the UK and the bloc. But Brussels warned Boris Johnson’s government against weakening UK standards.

Failure to get a positive decision would have risked plunging British businesses into disarray, leaving industries from banking to logistics scrambling to set up more costly, bureaucratic alternatives to share data.

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Originally posted in the guardian.