A year after the world’s toughest privacy law went into effect, new forms of data collection, like Facebook’s facial recognition technology in Europe and Google’s efforts to harvest information on third-party websites, have been given new leases on life
Smaller firms — whose fortunes were of special concern to the framers of the region’s privacy revamp — also have suffered from the relatively high compliance costs and the perception, at least among some investors, that they can’t compete with Silicon Valley’s biggest names.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “A lot of small and medium sized businesses are still struggling,” said John Miller, vice president of policy at the Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group in Washington DC that represents many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.
So far, almost 100,000 privacy complaints have been filed with national privacy regulators, though only a few have led to meaningful penalties, according to the International Association of Privacy Professionals, an industry trade body.
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