Ms Reding also said that ambiguity in her regulations was intentional: “This regulation needs to stand for 30 years – it needs to be very clear but imprecise enough that changes in the markets or public opinions can be manoeuvred in the regulation,” she said. “Crazy ideas today, in three or four years will become a very big commercial success; we need to make rules that are capable of adapting themselves to new technologies in the future. All these breathtaking possibilities bring about new dangers and the biggest danger is about losing control of your own data.”