Of course as the UK is leaving the EU even this protection is minimal
So the US can slurp UK data without any problem from PM May.
Brexit is the gift that just keeps on giving.
Europe's data protection authorities will hold fire for one year on the new Privacy Shield agreement, withholding any potential legal challenges until mid-2017. In a statement [PDF] by the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the influential body noted it was still unhappy with the final text of the agreement – which replaces the …
Good question.
Given the UK was regularly slated as having the weakest data protection laws in Europe I think anyone else in Europe would be thinking about re-locating any UK data centres somewhere else.
The joker would be any US businesses with UK data centres but I think most of the Googles, Amazons and Apples opted for Ireland, so BAU for them.