Data Mining
But she added that the need for more concerted action was becoming pressing.
"Over these 12 months our relationship with tech has both been darker and more muddy because it becomes increasingly clear that all the bright and shiny positive potentials of tech are at the risk of being darkened by forced misuse of data, manipulation, supervision, no respect of the citizen, no respect of individual rights," she told Martha Lane Fox who carried out the interview.
Privacy laws
The past year's scandals have included:- Facebook having to apologise for letting 87 million users' details be harvested, many of which were obtained by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica
- Twitter, Facebook and YouTube facing up to evidence that their platforms had been used by Russia and others to manipulate voters in the West
- the EU fining Google a record €4.3bn ($5bn; £3.9bn) for using Android to illegally defend its dominance in search
