The Committee took evidence on the EU data protection Directive and Regulation, the EU-US Privacy Shield and the EU-US Umbrella Agreement. The Committee asked questions such as, ‘assuming that the UK will be treated as a third country on data protection issues once the UK is no longer a member of the EU, what will be the default position for data flows between the UK and the EU the day after we leave the EU if we haven’t secured an adequacy decision?’