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France's CNIL forms task force to guide companies in Schrems II data-transfer compliance

By Matthew Newman
  • 18 May 2021 11:58
  • 18 May 2021 11:58
The French data protection authority has established a task force to help companies comply with conditions for EU-US data transfers laid down by the EU's top judges last July.
In its annual report published today, the authority said the task force has been conducting a “concrete and detailed analysis” of

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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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