>the companies that are mainly impacted by these laws are US companies. Any company who handles personal data is impacted. Facebook and Google are not the only

>the companies that are mainly impacted by these laws are US companies. Any company who handles personal data is impacted. Facebook and Google are not the only ones which do. European online shops and banks also have to comply. Just because Facebook and Google generate the most press on this issue doesn't mean it is an attack on them in particular. Privacy and data concerns are real societal issues. Tackling them is absolutely necessary and the EU is doing a good job by ruling that we own our data.