The Council of Ministers on Friday announced that Mar España Martí has been named the new director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency (the AEPD). She replaces José Luis Rodríguez Álvarez, who served in the role for four years. The new director, according to a press release in Spanish, is a lawyer and civil servant with extensive experience working on the protection of human rights. Her work with the presidency has included a focus on electronic administration and information security, promoting quality of data and transparency efforts in the Spanish government. She will serve a term of four years as the head of the AEPD. Rodríguez reports that he will return to his work at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and will remain active with data protection issues.
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