Strict privacy laws are creating a European data desert
Business
Strict digital guardrails are unintentionally starving European innovation, leaving local developers with less than a hundredth of the data their American counterparts use to train new intelligence.
While the United States and Europe produce a similar number of PhD graduates, their digital landscapes are diverging. Strict privacy regulations like the GDPR require firms to report data breaches within 72 hours, a hurdle that has led European companies to allocate 70 percent less data for training purposes compared to firms in the U.S. This has created a data desert where American models are trained on datasets 100 times larger than those available to European developers.