Now that Belgium has teamed with French, Spanish, German and Dutch regulators to zero in on Facebook’s cookie use, and Facebook has responded by calling for a single point of regulation in the EU, The New York Times and other news organizations are noticing that the world of regulation in the EU is becoming quite complicated. “The debate,” the report states, “is whether individuals’ privacy should be protected primarily by their domestic regulators or by the watchdog in the country where a company has its European headquarters.” And now that Facebook has more than 250 million users in Europe, other regulators beyond the privacy sphere are circling as well.
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