New Report Reconfirms European Union Moving Too Slowly Against Big Tech

Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute, Executive Director blogs about an Irish Council for Civil Liberties report arguing that it proves the EU is moving too slowly against Big Tech.

As Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech giants rack up massive profits by stealing people’s private data, the European Union retains its blinders.

Open Markets fellow, Johnny Ryan, and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties today released a report that reconfirms that the EU lacks any serious plan to deal with such threats.

For years, Open Markets has warned that the EU is moving far too slowly to protect democracy against the multiple threats posed by tech corporations such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

The ICCL report provides further proof that the top-down, state-centric regulatory approach to Big Tech favored by the EU and some U.S. groups will never work.

The only way to deal with the power of Big Tech is to use a multifaceted and comprehensive combination of common carrier laws, break ups, and other structural remedies to stop these corporations from manipulating and extorting users. Anything less is clearly not enough.