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EU, South Korea edge closer to 'adequacy' agreement to allow data flows

By Matthew Newman
  • 29 Jan 2021 11:27
  • 29 Jan 2021 11:27

European and South Korean companies may soon have a tool that will ease the transfer personal data as the two sides edge closer to an “adequacy” agreement on data flows, a senior European Commission official said.

“We are concluding in these days adequacy-negotiation talks with Korea,” Bruno Gencarelli, head of interna

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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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