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Google gets EUR10 million Spanish GDPR fine over transfer of content erasure requests to Lumen Project

By Matthew Newman
  • 18 May 2022 11:43
  • 18 May 2022 11:43
Google was fined a total of 10 million euros by the Spanish privacy watchdog today for two “very serious” violations of EU data-protection rules.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency said the penalties were imposed on the US search and advertising giant for transferring data to third parties without a legitimate

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Matthew Newman

Chief Correspondent


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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