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Ellen O'Regan is a Reporter with POLITICO Europe, specializing in Data Protection and Privacy. Her work intersects various themes including cybersecurity, public security, and the implications of artificial intelligence on privacy laws and energy policy. Ellen's insights have been featured in POLITICO Europe, The Irish Times, and the Irish Examiner.
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Ellen’s coverage centers on privacy, data rules, and the tensions between regulation, security, and cross-border information sharing. She seems most likely to engage with pitches tied to fresh legal or policy developments, court rulings, enforcement actions, or concrete cases that show how rules affect companies, governments, or individuals in practice.
She also appears open to stories where new technology or public safety concerns collide with privacy protections, especially when there’s a clear regulatory angle or an official decision to react to.
Given her global scope with a Belgium/EU base, outreach should frame angles through European institutions and their broader international impact.
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By: Carlo Martuscelli, Ellen O Regan
Beijing says it stands ready to act if Brussels muscles it out of the bloc's single market.
By: Ellen O Regan
The decision not to broadcast the iconic competition is “not any message against Jewish people,” but a “message against Netanyahu's state,” the president of Slovenia's broadcaster told POLITICO.
Five countries are boycotting the contest over Israel's participation. Israel has qualified to compete in Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final amid ongoing controversy surrounding the country's participation.
The iconic musical jamboree is in crisis mode after five countries declared they would boycott the competition in protest over the war in Gaza.
By: Ellen O Regan
Song contest managers are “prepared” for more disruptions during Saturday night's event, said Jean Philip de Tender, deputy director general at Eurovision organizer EBU.
Thousands of people took to the streets in Vienna on Saturday to protest Israel's participation in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, as the grand finale is set to kick off in the Austrian capital in the next few hours.
By: Ellen O'Regan
DARA’s booming dance anthem was a high-energy crowd-pleaser in Vienna.
The song contest's existential moment over Israel's participation is far from over.
Facing cyberattacks, hybrid warfare and military conflict, governments are storing their data outside their borders.
Cameras in spectacles have lawmakers and regulators alarmed of surveillance risks.
