Why Europe got tough on Google but the U.S. couldn’t - The Washington Post
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Which leaves government regulators. The Europeans seem to be more resistant to #Google’s lobbying power, perhaps because they have far more restrictive campaign finance laws. In addition, Europeans have been far more skeptical about the surveillance capitalism that Google and Facebook practice, in which your every move is part of their data record of your life. (Witness the “right to be forgotten,” a European legal innovation.) One could imagine a politician like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, raised under their constant surveillance of East Germany’s #Stasi secret police, being rather offended by Google’s ad tech following her everywhere on the Web (…).