Partner Alexander Egerton comments in Cybersecurity Law Report’s article ‘Lessons From the WhatsApp Decision on GDPR Transparency Requirements: Enforcement Takeaways’.
Data is a new currency, and big tech’s ability to harvest so much of it “gives them [consumers’] buying power,” he noted. Knowing they are up against big tech, regulators, “instead of telling these companies they are collecting too much data, are telling them that if they are collecting, using and monetizing this much data, they have to be completely transparent with users,” he told the Cybersecurity Law Report.