The EU has emerged as a powerful regulator of Silicon Valley, stepping in where Washington has failed or been unwilling to limit influential US tech companies
Tony Romm / Washington Post : Tweets: @tedgioia Tweets: Ted Gioia / @tedgioia : Strange but true: Europe demands privacy protection from Silicon Valley, while US legislators do nothing. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Of course, this has nothing to do with the $20 million Google spends on lobbying in the US each year.