Google policy head: Diverging tech regulation is locking SMEs out of industry
Karan Bhatia global head of government affairs and public policy at Google warned the different approaches to technology regulation across the globe are making it hard to do business
Differing approaches to technology regulation across the globe are making doing business challenging for large companies and “impossible” for small and medium enterprises, Google’s global head of public policy has said.
Karan Bhatia, global head of government affairs and public policy, used the example of technology privacy and content regulation, which he described as “extraordinarily disaggregated”.
“In the last three years alone there were 1,300 new regulations that were promulgated,” he said at the Digital Ireland Conference in Dublin on Thursday. “I defy any other industry to reach that level. Go to the aircraft manufacturers and say ‘to operate in our country we need wings an inch longer or we need the wings a inch shorter’.”
