Hold on. That's not how you deny a report, Pentagon. www.bloomberg.com./news/article...

Bit of a shock in the EU data protection bubble today: members of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee picked Commission official Bruno Gencarelli as their choice to lead the EU's in-house privacy regulator, beating the incumbent Wojciech Wiewiórowski in a secret vote.

Coming in cold to this.

Like many, I was here until I wasn't: x.com/laurenscerulus

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