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EU to apply same analysis of potential 5G health risks as for other technologies, Breton says

By Matthew Newman
  • 01 Oct 2020 09:45
  • 01 Oct 2020 09:45
The European Commission will apply the same type of analysis used to evaluate health risks for previous generations of mobile technology radio waves with the latest 5G technology, the EU’s internal markets commissioner said today.
Thierry Breton, who was asked about the potential health risks from deploying 5G networks by

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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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