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not all use that ip select.
Regulation has become an industry unto itself, and nowhere is this more evident than within the EU. Those guys need to keep pumping out new products, and member states have no choice but to buy them.
Here's a quick quote, as an example: "Margrethe Vestager wants to keep European markets competitive -- which is why, on behalf of the EU, she's fined Google $2.8 billion for breaching antitrust rules, asked Apple for $15.3 billion in back taxes and investigated a range of companies, from Gazprom to Fiat, for anti-competitive practices".
Here's the talk.
"Few in Silicon Valley doubt that competition policy in Europe is anything but thinly veiled protectionism aimed at shielding the region’s old-economy firms from disruption.":
https://www.economist.com/business/2017/09/14/is-margrethe-vestager-championing-consumers-or-her-political-career
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/key-definitions/what-is-personal-data/
2 min google search.
Such information can often be sold on to marketing companies etc etc without our consent. The key issue is that personal information of any level of meaningfulness is still personal data and should not be harvested without our consent.
Now please, please for goodness sake, grow the hell up and stop turning a thread on a simple question into something it doesn't need to be, i.e. a bloody argument irrelevant to the question the OP asked.
Honestly, for a group of people that supposedly got what they wanted, you don't half whinge about it.
But by the sound of things, you're just interested in EU bashing, so there's little point in debating it with you - you've yet to offer a single fact, just insinuations such as 'they'll never pay' - which is not a fact.
FWIW, I had to deal with GDPR as a small business that needs to process mental health data, and that can included data on gender, sexual history and criminal records - so the new regulations had many implications. The issues I had to deal with came from the UK, specifically the ICO, and their inability to provide usable information on implementing policies right up to the day the law came into effect. You think the EU are the issue, try taking a closer look at Westminster, and the clowns we've got in parliament, the unelected members of the lords and civil servants. After two years of negotiating, they've got a deal none of them actually want or believe in, by contrast, the whole block of remaining EU nations have managed to agree it without an argument. And still some people say the UK will be able to negotiate better trade deals outside the EU. What a joke.
Very selective quoting on your part. From the same article:
Since she assumed her current role in November 2014, Ms Vestager has had several high-profile clashes with American tech firms. In May she fined Facebook €110m for misleading EU trustbusters about its takeover of WhatsApp, a messaging service. In June a long-running investigation resulted in a €2.4bn fine on Google for using its search engine to promote its own comparison-shopping service. EU trustbusters have also charged Google with using its Android operating system to promote its mobile-phone apps and services over those of rivals. That investigation continues.
Brussels believes the growing power of big tech firms to shape politics, society and the economy requires a counterweight. The battle is of greater urgency, the commission reckons, because the data that tech monopolies have accumulated make it far harder for upstart firms to displace them or keep them in check.
In some of the battles she has started, tech giants had a case to answer. Facebook’s misdeed, for instance, is not much disputed. The Google Android investigation seems to have merit.
Her main aim may have been to get the issue of corporate-tax evasion firmly on the agenda. If so, it was a tactical masterstroke.