Companies face giant fines, as new rules enshrine the “right to be forgotten” and require teens to get parental consent for social media.
The European Union has adopted continent-wide privacy regulations that are being hailed by some as “a revolution” in data rights and by others as a new headache for tech companies. The new set of regulations on how Internet companies handle data in Europe, the largest such reforms in two decades, will do everything from modifying Google search results to requiring parental permission for teenagers to set up Facebook and Snapchat accounts to changing the way Microsoft Windows is bundled on computers.
