Europe is dealing with Facebook in a way the U.S. hasn't

Facebook’s efforts to save face over its data policy may be less about responding to outrage and more because it has been forced to by European lawmakers who tackled the digital economy when the U.S. wouldn’t. Critics have called on Facebook for more transparency — and additional regulation from Congress — since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where a consulting firm that worked with President Trump was able to harvest the data of 50 million users, many without their consent.
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