It’s becoming standard practice for US tech giants to follow the letter of European rulings and regulations without really changing their behaviour.
Most recently, Facebook and Google have exhibited just a superficial compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, which requires companies to allow users to keep control of their data.
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