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Mailchimp use by magazine barred under GDPR in Bavaria in first Schrems II prohibition (*update)

By Matthew Newman and Cynthia Kroet
  • 26 Mar 2021 12:01
  • 26 Mar 2021 13:38
US e-mail marketing service Mailchimp can’t be used by a Munich fashion magazine because the publisher failed to comply with EU data protection rules on transfers to the US as interpreted by EU judges' landmark Schrems II decision.
Bavaria's data protection authority has said US data transfers using Mailchimp were

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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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