GDPR Architect Dodges Data Privacy Spam as World Hits Delete Key
- Jourova reduced her online presence, left Facebook not Twitter
- Says that eight states lag in adopting new EU privacy rules
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While the world faced a mountain of grating emails about new European Union privacy rules, one of the law’s architects says her inbox barely registered a ripple.
EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova, who quit Facebook Inc.’s social network after calling it “a highway for hatred,” says her online presence is so low she barely got any notifications from companies that flooded the inboxes of Europeans in the run-up to the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, taking effect last month.