Do You Think the Eu Is a Good Protection for Consumers?

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Do you think initiatives like the e u? G d p r are good protection for consumers, or does it just make european companies less competitive? The answer is yes, i think it does a lo o atem less competitive, but it t it does many things. I'm not sure it's all that protecting, because individual users either don't have the patience, time or t logy background to judge what part of the data to send to what web sides. So maybe an a, i woll be needed one day too, to judge for me, because i don't think if i can't do that, i think a lot of other people also cant can't do

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