Google has nothing to fear from new EU data law

Google, Facebook and other US technology companies have been given a wake-up call with moves by Europe to impose stricter rules on data protection, but have nothing to fear from them, one of the architects of the legislation said.

Jan Philipp Albrecht, a 30-year-old German from the Greens party, who was the lead parliamentary negotiator on the legislation, said, “the new rules don't just apply to US companies, they apply to companies everywhere around the world, including in Europe, handling European data."