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Big Tech oversight and cookie consent rules to be new UK data privacy chief’s focus

The UK's regulation of how websites collect user data through cookies needs to change, the country's new chief data protection regulator said today.
Speaking in his first interviews since taking over as head of the Information Commissioner’s Office (see here), John Edwards called the current cookie consent process “not

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Sam Clark

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Sam has covered data privacy and security in the UK and Ireland for MLex since November 2021. He previously covered data protection for trade publication Global Data Review, as well as reporting on technology, media and telecoms businesses for S&P Global. He has a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in journalism, both from the University of Kent.

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