Europe’s two-year-old online privacy law, heralded as a model to crack down on the invasive, data-hungry practices of the world’s largest technology companies, is struggling to fulfill its promise. Europe’s rules have been a victim of a lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies, according to budget and staffing figures and interviews with government officials. Even some of the law’s biggest supporters are frustrated with how it has worked.
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