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Privacy review needed in 'digital euro' plans, EU data protection authorities will assert

By Matthew Newman and Jack Schickler
  • 08 Jun 2021 12:00
  • 08 Jun 2021 12:00
The European Central Bank should consider the privacy implications of a "digital euro" in consultation with EU data protection authorities, they plan to tell the ECB next week, MLex has learned.
The European Data Protection Board — the umbrella group of the EU's 27 national data protection authorities — plans to adopt

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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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