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Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, died Tuesday in Italy. He was "surrounded by his family," his office announced Wednesday, without providing other biographical details or responding to a query. Before European's Parliament and its Council named him in…

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December 2014 to a five-year term, the Italian national had been an assistant European data protection supervisor and previously was Italian Data Protection Authority secretary-general. Buttarelli's funeral is Saturday in Italy.