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'Crunch time' for GDPR over enforcement failings, EU officials and regulators warn

By Matthew Newman
  • 02 Dec 2021 08:36
  • 02 Dec 2021 08:36
Enforcement of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has reached “crunch time,” and authorities must act decisively against Big Tech's potentially abusive practices so citizens don’t lose confidence in it, EU officials said today.

Privacy advocates, national data protection authorities and EU lawmakers have long criticized a failure to land major punche

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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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