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Questions on damages eligibility over GDPR violations land at EU's top court

By Matthew Newman
  • 29 Jun 2021 12:18
  • 29 Jun 2021 12:18
Are individuals eligible to be compensated for a violation of the EU's data protection law alone, or must they also have suffered harm from the illegal processing of personal data?  
That is the question the EU's top judges have been tasked with answering in a case referred to them by

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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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