Data Protection and Digital Sovereignty Post-Brexit

One of the promises of Brexit was to allow the UK to regain its legislative sovereignty from the EU. However, after Brexit, UK data protection law must remain in line with EU standards in order not to lose the adequacy status that allows personal data to be transferred from the EU. This circumstance generates tensions between the EU, which is committed to preserving its digital sovereignty by ensuring an adequate protection of personal data even beyond its borders, and the UK's ambition to become a champion of the digital economy by adopting an innovative and pro-business legislation in the digital field.

The book analyses the latest legal and policy developments in this context, focusing on data protection but also exploring its intersection with other related regulatory areas, such as artificial intelligence and online safety. Renowned international experts contextualise current regulatory trends and policy proposals to understand whether a new UK model in the field of digital regulation is emerging and to what extent this will exacerbate existing tensions between the UK and the EU.

The book includes an accessible and detailed analysis of the major judicial decisions, laws, and current bills offering an invaluable guide to academics, practitioners, and policymakers navigating the complex issues of cross-border data protection post-Brexit.

Róisín Á Costello is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

She was previously Assistant Professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, Ireland. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and Georgetown Law, Róisín is a qualified barrister and researches and works on EU law, fundamental rights (with a particular focus on privacy and property rights), media law, language rights, and law and literature. Her research has been supervised by and conducted alongside some of the leading privacy lawyers in Ireland, and internationally, including Professor Julie E Cohen, Professor Alvaro Bedoya and Professor Neil M Richards, Dr Federico Fabbrini and Dr Eoin O'Dell.

Róisín has previously worked with the Georgetown Centre for Privacy and Technology Law and epic.org in Washington DC, researching the interaction of privacy and consumer technologies, and has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals on the subjects of privacy and data protection. Róisín completed her PhD in Law at Trinity College Dublin where her doctoral research was funded by the Irish Research Council and examined private actors as norm setters in the digital environment. Prior to joining DCU, Róisín was Assistant Lecturer in Media and IT Law at Maynooth University and taught at Trinity College Dublin.