Here you will find all the articles with the tag: France.
Draft rules intended to govern companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon should be tightened to allow regulators to vet acquisitions of start-ups, according to Germany, France, and the Netherlands. The assertion was made in a joint statement by German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier and ... Read more
3 years ago
French ministers agree that collaborating with the Americans may be a good thing for France. The French government has decreed that the country's most sensitive state and corporate data can be safely stored using the cloud computing technology developed by Alphabet's Google and Microsoft. This c... Read more
3 years ago
The French privacy watchdog is once more nipping at the heels of the usual American technology giants Digital payment services developed by U.S. tech giants such as Apple and Google risk reinforcing their market power, according to a report this week in Reuters. The payment systems strengthe... Read more
3 years ago
Hosting provider OVHcloud is still recovering from the fire that destroyed two of its data centres. More than a month after the fire, there are still customers whose services have not been restored yet. Recovering from the fire is a real nightmare, says OVH CEO Octave Klaba in a tweet. After a d... Read more
3 years ago
The Austrian group NOYB claims Android phones violate Europeans' right to privacy. Privacy group NOYB has instigated a new complaint about Google's use of the Android Advertising ID (AAID) to track users. They claim that the identifiers that the Android system uses are in clear violation of EU l... Read more
3 years ago
OVH founder Octave Klabe has shared more information about what happened at the burnt down Strasbourg data centre. There are strong indications that the fire started at a faulty uninterruptible power supply. In a video uploaded to OVH's website, Klabe apologises for the incident. He also explain... Read more
3 years ago
A fire has broken out at the French hosting company OVHcloud. Of the four data centres that the company has in Strasbourg, one burned down completely, one was heavily damaged, and two remained intact. Octave Klaba, the founder of OVHcloud, shares details about the fire on Twitter. There he says ... Read more
3 years ago
France is pushing to expand regulations that will grant European Union member states, the capabilities to punish big tech companies for breaking the law. The changes proposed by France, concern the Digital Services Act, a set of proposed laws that are designed to curb anticompetitive behavior by th... Read more
3 years ago
Google has been fined €1.1 million over misleading star ratings for hotels in France. The company has agreed to pay the fine after it had been applying its own algorithm-driven system of ratings for hotels applied on its search engine and Google Maps. However, back in 2019, several complaints ... Read more
3 years ago
France has resumed its previously halted taxes on the revenue of tech giants. The country had previously stopped this tax following a deal with the United States. It is a 3 percent tax. The tax on tech giants was stopped after a deal with the United States. In the deal, the country promised that... Read more
3 years ago
