Europe is drawing fresh battle lines around the ethics of big data

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https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/03/europe-is-drawing-fresh-battle-lines-around-the-ethics-of-big-data/

By Natasha Lomas
@riptari
Tech Crunch
October 3, 2018

It’s been just over four months since Europe’s tough new privacy framework 
came into force. You might believe that little of substance has changed 
for big tech’s data-hungry smooth operators since then — beyond firing out 
a wave of privacy policy update spam, and putting up a fresh cluster of 
consent pop-ups that are just as aggressively keen for your data.

But don’t be fooled. This is the calm before the storm, according to the 
European Union’s data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, who says 
the law is being systematically flouted on a number of fronts right now — 
and that enforcement is coming.

“I’m expecting, before the end of the year, concrete results,” he tells 
TechCrunch, sounding angry on every consumer’s behalf.

Though he chalks up some early wins for the General Data Protection 
Regulation (GDPR) too, suggesting its 72 hour breach notification 
requirement is already bearing fruit.

He also points to geopolitical pull, with privacy regulation rising up the 
political agenda outside Europe — describing, for example, California’s 
recently passed privacy law, which is not at all popular with tech giants, 
as having “a lot of similarities to GDPR”; as well as noting “a new 
appetite for a federal law” in the U.S.

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