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EU data-governance bill prompts protectionism fear from US FTC's Phillips

By Matthew Newman
  • 01 Dec 2020 13:03
  • 14 Apr 2021 05:36
The EU’s push for data sovereignty has prompted a senior American official to express concerns today about “data localization” and the potential lack of a “level playing field” for US companies.
Last week, the European Commission proposed a “data governance” act that allows EU public entities to restrict international transfers

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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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