After five years of high-profile investigations and fines against Google, Facebook and Apple, Danish politician Margrethe Vestager will now be in charge of revamping how the EU regulates the digital world
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Vestager will be tasked with making the region “fit for the digital age,” a wide-ranging responsibility that mirrors the current Commission’s priority to bolster Europe’s technological prowess — an area where the bloc falls behind China and the U.S. and where rivalries among member states have often made it difficult for Europe to speak with one voice.
, the former deputy governor of France’s central bank who was appointed as Europe’s new internal markets commissioner with responsibility to promote digital industries. Vestager also is an outspoken critic of how tech companies use people’s personal data — an area that she has made a priority for Europe’s competition authority after opening several investigations in recent months into whether such harvesting of data by Silicon Valley represents an antitrust concern.
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