The EU's new privacy law is starting to bite Facebook

REGULATION helps incumbents, which have the resources to comply, but hurts newcomers. Or so argue critics of the European Commission's new rules for the digital realm and of its privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). That may yet prove true, although the GDPR makes exceptions for smaller firms. But for now these new laws are making life harder for big technology firms. Facebook, in particular, is in the cross-hairs of European regulators as never before. The latest example c...