The EU is failing to control big tech companies like Facebook as they lack the legal strength and are being too slow to enforce regulation within the industry. 

It has been a decade since the EU first started a competition investigation with Google.

New regulation is set to be enforced where big tech firms have to share the data they collect with smaller rivals.

However, the EU competition commissioner acknowledges that more needs to be done in order to create a level playing field.

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