One Year Later, EU Privacy Law Faces Tough Questions

“The point of the GDPR was to create a single digital market,” Daniel Castro told The Hill. “The U.S. is moving towards the opposite of that.” But he argued that the GDPR has failed to make much of a difference for consumers and warned that it has actually strengthened the largest tech companies. “The net effect has been that there’s been an entrenchment in the largest ad networks, which is ironically decreasing competition,” he said.