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Margrethe Vestager ordered Google to pay a record-sized fine this year
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Data abuse has "darkened" technology's potential, the EU's Competition Commissioner has warned.
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an interview for the BBC's Today programme, Margrethe Vestager
criticised the tech giants for misusing data and failing to respect
citizens' rights.
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Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho co-founded Lastminute.com before becoming a crossbench peer
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New EU rules governing what could be done with data provided some protection, she said. But she added that the need for more concerted action was becoming pressing.
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The European Commission is also looking into Amazon's business practices
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"Over
these 12 months our relationship with tech has both been darker and
more muddy because it becomes increasingly clear that all the bright and
shiny positive potentials of tech are at the risk of being darkened by
forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the
citizen, no respect of individual rights," she told Martha Lane Fox who
carried out the interview.
"There is an increasing awareness of the fact that we really need to do something and to do that together."
Baroness Lane-Fox, who is a board member of Twitter, is guest editor of this morning's Today radio programme on BBC Radio 4.