In what ways has the European environment turned against American firms such as Facebook and Google?
What will be an ideal response?
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is clearly aimed at Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other ad-based online businesses that build collections of personal data by tracking individuals across the Web, merging that data with data from firms and data brokers in order to build comprehensive digital images (profiles) and to target these persons with ads. Google and Facebook are both extremely popular in Europe, and dominate their markets, but at the same time are widely criticized for invading privacy and not protecting PII. European regulators and politicians point to Facebook allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, to gain access to over 100 million user accounts in 2016 and a 2018 data breach of 50 million Facebook accounts as evidence that Facebook is unable to protect the privacy of Europeans. Google is also in the cross-hairs of EU regulators for its monopoly on search in the EU, abuse of that monopoly by ranking Google services above others on its search pages, and abuse of its ownership of the Android operating system by requiring smartphone manufacturers to pre-install Google apps on Android phones, as well as evading taxes on revenues earned in EU countries. Both firms, along with Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, are accused of "deceit by design" through the use of threats against users who choose strong privacy protections on their services, and screen designs that encourage users to give up as much personal information as possible.
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