Legal cases are already being filed against Facebook, Google, WhatsApp and Instagram under the European Union's new data protection regulation.
The so called GDPR comes with the ability to impose massive fines on companies that fail to comply and firms around the world are affected if they hold data in the EU.
From Brussels, our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.
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