And let that be a warning: at last, Brussels shows some global leadership worth following

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
3 min readMay 23

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IMAGE: An open laptop on a table and with a blue screen with a lock surrounded by the EU stars in yellow
IMAGE: Mohamed Hassan — Pixabay

Could the record €1.2 billion fine the EU has imposed on Meta for breaching its privacy laws by continuing to export users’ data to the United States following the annulment of the Safe Harbor agreements in 2015 just mark the beginning of the end of surveillance capitalism, cementing Brussels’ global leadership as a regulator?

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)