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Draft EU e-privacy rules attract regulators' criticism on telecom data retention

By Matthew Newman
  • 10 Mar 2021 11:44
  • 10 Mar 2021 11:44
EU telecom companies’ potential new obligations to retain customer data for criminal investigations, proposed under draft e-privacy rules, have drawn criticism from the bloc’s national data protection authorities.

Negotiations on the draft rules have been deadlocked since 2017. National governments finally made progress last month, nearing agreement on a version o

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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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