On February 7, the European data protection authorities elected Andrea Jelinek as the new chairperson of the Article 29 Working Party. Jelinek was previously the data protection chief in Austria, and she will oversee the Article 29 Working Party's transition to the European Data Protection Board under the GDPR in the coming months.

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