Unfortunately, GDPR has been infuriatingly bureaucratic and expensive for smaller online enterprises and charities.
They have paid the price for a tool aimed at stopping the FAANGs – Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google owner Alphabet – from mining personal data.
The FAANGs do so anyway, as most consumers press I agree and wouldn t dream of wading through screens of legalese.
During David Cameron s spell at Number 10 from 2010-16 there was an open door policy for big tech in Britain.
It paid off with Google, Facebook, Amazon et al establishing large campuses in the UK and leading charmed and almost tax-free lives.
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Experts are still poring over the 1,246-page Brexit trade deal, but the devil is always in the detail.
Dozens of UK-EU committees overseeing all aspects of the deal will now have to be set up, committing the UK and the EU to semi-permanent Brexit negotiations.
New business travel rules will mean fashion models and musicians may need work visas for Europe. And the economic damage from restoring trade barriers previously demolished could be felt for years to come.
While the deal is thin, as expected, there are positives, including, say experts, on climate change, aviation and haulage.