MEPs voted on Tuesday to add more procedural rules to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to speed up investigations (Photo: European Union 2025)

EU's GDPR rules finally updated in bid to speed up investigations

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by Owen Carpenter-Zehe, Brussels,

An update to the EU's data protection rules was approved by MEPs on Tuesday (21 October), with new rules aimed at speeding up General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) investigations.

The European Parliament voted to adopt updated rules to enforce the GDPR, as was initially proposed by the EU Commission in

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Owen Carpenter-Zehe is a junior reporter from the US at EUobserver, covering European politics.

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MEPs voted on Tuesday to add more procedural rules to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to speed up investigations (Photo: European Union 2025)