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Belgian Data Protection Authority faces audit after lawmakers question its independence

By Matthew Newman
  • 01 Mar 2021 08:42
  • 01 Mar 2021 08:42
The Belgian Data Protection Authority is facing a review by the country’s Court of Audit following a request by lawmakers last month to examine the authority’s efficiency and independence, a parliament member told MLex.
The lawmakers received complaints from two members of the regulator's five-person executive committee on the potential

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Matthew Newman

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Matthew Newman is a chief correspondent for MLex and writes about data protection, privacy, telecoms, cyber security and artificial intelligence. Matthew began his journalism career in 1991 in community newspapers. He worked as a reporter in Riga, Latvia in 1993 and then moved to Chicago where he covered local news. In 1995, he became a personal finance reporter for Dow Jones Newswires, and was then transferred to Brussels in 1999. He specialized in EU regulatory affairs, including trade and telecom issues. He began covering competition for Bloomberg News as an EU court reporter in 2004. In 2010, he was named spokesman for Viviane Reding, the EU’s justice commissioner. In January 2012, he helped launch the commission’s proposal to overall data protection rules.

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