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UK data agreements to be monitored by EU under final adequacy decision

By Vesela Gladicheva and Matthew Newman
  • 24 Jun 2021 08:08
  • 24 Jun 2021 08:08
Future UK decisions and deals on data transfers will come under close scrutiny by the European Commission, as part of an "adequacy" accord for uninterrupted EU-UK data flows, according to the agreement's final version seen by MLex.

The accord, expected to be officially published before the end of the month, recogn

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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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