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Now playing Next Belgium Big tech companies exposed to EU privacy cases after court decision Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others can be challenged by watchdogs in any EU member state, not just its lead regulator in Ireland, the bloc’s top court has ruled. 15/06/2021
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Now playing Next the global conversation Margrethe Vestager explains the EU's position in the global battle for data Margrethe Vestager, the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for all things digital, gives us her insight into global data, data sharing, big tech, the Data Governance Act and the reality of policy and implementation. 07/05/2021
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Now playing Next View Privacy is overrated. It’s time Big Tech made the positive case for harvesting our data ǀ View There are lots of people telling us how concerned we should be about giving up our data - but almost no one can tell us exactly why. And even fewer people are reminding us that privacy is a small price to pay for what tech platforms have created for our lives, economies and societies. 27/02/2020
Now playing Next View The Kremlin is trying to force Twitter and Facebook to store data locally. It’s not alone ǀ View Required storage of data in a certain location might seem like the anti-internet openness pipe dream of an authoritarian government. But, that could not be further from the truth, with governments from New Delhi to Washington also implementing or considering rules that mandate local storage of data. 20/02/2020
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