Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European privacy rules

Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by hnlmorg on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:41AM (#28968334)

Smaller companies have fewer compliance concerns and thus have an easier and cheaper job conforming.

As for the comment about "consolidation of goods/services into larger and larger corporations", that's very much an Americanisation. It's usually the American firms that go for global monopolies. I'm not saying we don't have large multi-nationals in the Europe as well but there is a real culture for supporting independent businesses here which I've not noticed in America (it might exist there but I've not seen it as prevalent there during my visits).

Frankly, the only people GDPR affects is those it's expressly there to protect us from. So I consider that a win.

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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by hownottowrite on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:44AM (#28968380)

The culture for supporting small businesses is a very fair point. Americans talk about it but in practice the support is very weak.

Europe also retains strong local press operations so advertising in newspapers is actually viable. That’s dead in the US.

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Re:Google said it had successfully ‘slowed down’ European pr... by lotsofpulp on Saturday October 23, 2021 @09:48AM (#28968424)

I wonder what demographic is reading physical newspapers in Europe to cause a difference compared to the US.

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