Facebook enlists conservative help to resist privacy rules
The worries on the right include concerns that European privacy rules would be burdensome to startups and small companies and that its provisions like the “right to erasure” — giving people a way to wipe away personal data — could be used to restrict free speech, said Charles Duan, associate director of technology and innovation policy at the R Street Institute, a right-of-center think tank.
“If they start complying with GDPR in the U.S., they would likely run into a whole lot of people saying, ‘Why are you censoring us?’” he said.
