European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager speaks during a press conference on the last day of the Web Summit in Lisbon on November 7, 2019. - Europe's largest tech event Web Summit is held at Parque das Nacoes in Lisbon from November 4 to November 7. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s new tech czar, warned that privacy watchdogs must have resources to match their beefed-up powers and issued a fresh antitrust threat to companies abusing their control of data to crush competition.
The Dane, who is due to start as the EU’s digital policy commissioner as soon as Dec 1, warned that wide new privacy rights introduced last year have few teeth "if you cannot enforce them”.
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