During his Sept. 14 EU State of the Union, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker proposed “a positive agenda of concrete European actions for the next 12 months” while reminding listeners that “we are not the United States of Europe” and that bloc-wide change would happen when complex Member States acknowledge their diversity while working together for the same, overarching goals. One of the perspectives that unifies the EU, he said, is “the right to have your personal data protected by strong, European laws.” Enter the General Data Protection Regulation. “This is a strong European law that applies to companies wherever they are based and whenever they are processing your data,” Juncker continued. “Because in Europe, privacy matters. This is a question of human dignity.”
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