A man carries a European Union flag outside in Parliament Square in London, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Last week's Brexit deal solidifies the terms under which the United Kingdom will leave the EU. But the issue of data transfers remains open, with great potential for confusion among privacy officers around the globe. European privacy laws prohibit the transfer of personal information outside the Union without guarantees that the data will be held to the same standard of care. Now that the U.K. is leaving, a firm storing data in the U.K. will eventually be subject to the same burden as those in North America or Africa.