The new European data privacy legislation is so stringent that it could kill off data-driven online services and chill innovations like driverless cars, tech industry groups warn. These industry alarms are not over the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, a tough privacy law that just went into effect in the European Union; instead, the cause is an even stricter privacy law that’s pending called the ePrivacy Regulation, and it specifically protects the confidentiality of electronic communications.
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