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Brussels writes the rules. Everyone else lives by them.

How a single regulation became the default operating system for the global internet.

Brussels writes the rules. Everyone else lives by them.

Photograph: tek54

A company in Ohio changes how it stores customer data because of a law written in a language its engineers do not speak, passed by a parliament they cannot vote for.

This is not an accident. It is the entire point.

Regulation