How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech

Dutch privacy negotiators have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft and Zoom, using a landmark European data protection law as a lever.

The New York Times

For some U.S. tech companies, the Dutch imprimatur has now become a status symbol, a kind of seal of approval they can show regulators elsewhere to demonstrate they have passed one of Europe’s most stringent data protection compliance processes.That's cool! In a similar vein, I always felt a touch of pride when computer monitors were marketed globally as certified with the Swedish office workers' federation standards (TCO '97).

@waag @sjoera