The coming EU privacy regulation will end up remaking the world's web
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3F1EW)
Europe's General Data Protection Regulation kicks in this May, and it enforces a user-first, privacy-centric set of rules for the internet that is totally incompatible with the adtech industry and the ad-supported web in general (though much rides on a potentially humungous loophole). (more")