Lionel Laurent, Columnist

Ireland Is Being Tech-Shamed, for Good Reason

Europe’s tough data-privacy rules risk being undermined by the inaction of a single regulator. More needs to be done.

May 13, 2019 at 5:30 AM UTC

Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the future of money and the future of Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes.

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“Only Facebook Ireland can respond to your concerns.”

That is the response you are likely to get from Facebook Inc. if you accuse the world’s biggest social network of breaching Europe’s tough new laws on data privacy.