Amazon and Google may have some catching up to do. It turns out the mail service of France, La Poste, has already successfully field-tested a service that can fly a package to a remote… Read more »
Google lost an emergency appeal, meaning it is posting a notice in the middle of its French homepage for a period of 48 hours that tells users it violated their privacy. Read more »
Should public figures have the right to purge search engines of images that depict their embarrassing behavior? A court in Paris has said yes, and ordered Google to delete images of… Read more »
French lawmakers have passed what some are calling an “anti-Amazon” bill that curbs the U.S. retailer from combining discounts and free shipping. Read more »
France formally rescinded a controversial law that let authorities cut off pirates from the internet; the country is now focused instead on cultural levies on devices like the iPad. Read more »
Even as Europe expresses outrage over America’s PRISM program, France is attempting to deny that it’s operating a similar program of its own. Read more »
French competition authorities confirmed to GigaOM they are reviewing the app stores of Apple, Google and Amazon for possible antitrust violations. The agency also said it conducted a raid on Apple… Read more »
A new French court ruling raises questions about how far the country, which has robust support for artists and musicians, should go in imposing cultural taxes on connected devices. Read more »
Jewish groups in France are invoking hate speech laws to demand that Twitter hand over the identities of users who tweeted anti-Semitic messages. This puts Twitter in a hard place because… Read more »