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UK out of time to win EU data-adequacy decision this year

By Matthew Newman
  • 18 Dec 2020 10:18
  • 18 Dec 2020 11:22
The UK has run out of time to secure an EU “adequacy” agreement on data flows before a year-end deadline, meaning companies will have to rely on other legal mechanisms, MLex has learned.
The two sides have been working to reach a deal before the Brexit transition period ends on

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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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