Tag: france

September 13, 2023

France’s FCC has ordered Apple to remove the iPhone 12 from the local market as the model exceeds the limit for electromagnetic absorption by the body. The information comes from the French blog France24. ANFR, the French agency that regulates […]

April 26, 2022

When Vladimir Putin congratulated Emmanuel Macron on his re-election as France’s president and wished him “success in your activities,” the Russian leader probably was being more polite than sincere. As he embarks on a second term, with the intention of […]

February 22, 2022

The U.S. and France criticized mercenaries in the Central African Republic from the Russian security company Wagner, accusing them on Tuesday of executing civilians, attacking U.N. peacekeepers and targeting predominantly Muslim communities in their military operations. Russia never mentioned mercenaries […]

October 5, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday to explore potential cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and other areas as the Biden administration moved to repair damage caused to relations by excluding France from a new […]

December 10, 2020

Google and Amazon have both been hit with substantial fines from the French data-protection regulator, CNIL, for invading users’ privacy. On Thursday, the watchdog fined Google €100 million ($121 million)—double the penalty it levied on the firm last year over […]

January 21, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron and the US President Donald Trump have agreed to pause the digital trade war that had been brewing over the few months between the two nations. Tensions escalated after France passed a digital services tax in […]

December 20, 2019

France’s competition watchdog has slapped Google with a €150 million (~$166M) fine after finding the tech giant abused its dominant position in the online search advertising market. In a decision announced today — following a lengthy investigation into the online […]

August 27, 2019

The United States and France have reached a deal over the taxation of digital services, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a Monday news conference alongside US President Donald Trump. But later in the same conference, Trump pointedly declined to […]

August 26, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States is close to reaching a compromise over France’s digital tax. Trump’s comments came as he spoke to reporters at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, alongside German Chancellor Angela […]

July 12, 2019

Big tech companies will now be required to pay a 3% tax of total annual revenues to the French government after a Bill targeting GAFA companies — an acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon — was passed on Thursday. […]

September 25, 2018

Another European data protection agency has reported a sharp rise in the numbers of complaints since the EU updated its privacy framework four months ago, when GDPR came into force, updating regional data protection rules and introducing much higher penalties […]

August 7, 2017

France is back, seeking to plug tax loopholes with a vengeance. In July, a French court rejected claims that Google abused loopholes to avoid paying its fair share of taxes. This follows a similar attempt made by the U.K. last […]

May 8, 2017

Another political campaign has been hit by an email dump. This time, the target is French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron. On Friday, his campaign said a massive and coordinated hack had breached the email inboxes of several staffers. This came […]

July 20, 2016

The high court of Paris has ruled that Google and Microsoft do not have to censor their search engines to remove all results involving the world “torrent” used in conjunction with the names of three French musicians. The French music […]

February 11, 2016

Facebook has just 60 days to change its terms and conditions for French users, or face legal sanctions. France’s Directorate-General for Competition, Consumers and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF) has audited the social network’s terms of use and concluded that they contain […]