“Europe’s New Consumer Privacy Law Gives Edge to Tech Giants,” The Wall Street Journal April 24, 2018 A1. The General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect next month, protects consumers but also gives Google and Facebook an advantage.
By wielding their power over advertisers and taking a strict interpretation of the law, Facebook and Google can make it really difficult for competitors to establish competing platforms.
Is this what the European regulators anticipated?
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