Jason Furman: evaluation

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…What do you think of GDPR as privacy legislation? I have mixed feelings about it. I think privacy legislation is important. I think it’s something that people care about. I personally, for myself, don’t care that much about it and tend not to do lots of privacy settings on things, even when I have a choice and know what I’m doing, so I don’t personally relate to it as much, but it’s something that people care about. I’d like . . . in a world where I thought people were informed, I would think competition and choice would fully solve the problem. I think it contributes to solving the problem but probably isn’t enough. GDPR also, though, is cumbersome and in some ways has been an impediment to competition because the big companies can navigate it much more easily than small ones can. Sure. Won’t that be true of any effective privacy legislation? That it will make worse the dominance of the larger companies? Because any law — the bigger companies have better legal staff, PR, and so on.…

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