European Union Plans Stronger Consumer Laws for Social Media

The European Union is planning to apply tougher consumer laws to social media networks and email providers like Facebook and Google’s Gmail as scrutiny of data protection grows in the wake of an outcry over Facebook’s handling of data. Under the draft proposal first considered last year, authorities could levy fines of at least 4 percent of turnover. 

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