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How Belgium’s privacy watchdog fell apart

By Nicholas Wallace
  • 06 Sep 2022 08:39
  • 06 Sep 2022 09:00
The Belgian parliament’s recent decision to sack two directors at the Data Protection Authority, David Stevens and Charlotte Dereppe, is a messy conclusion to a bizarre and very Belgian drama.

The episode points to a bureaucracy rife with political patronage and a governance system starkly divided between Belgium’s two main langua

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Nicholas Wallace

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Nicholas Wallace has covered data privacy and security for MLex in Brussels since November 2021. Prior to joining MLex, he worked as a freelance reporter for Science Magazine, Science|Business, and International News Services, an agency serving trade publications worldwide. He holds a masters degree in public policy, jointly awarded by the Central European University in Budapest and the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, and a bachelors degree in politics from Liverpool John Moores University.

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