TechSpot

DECEMBER 17, 2021

On Thursday, France's privacy watchdog, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), demanded that Clearview AI delete all data it has on French citizens. The regulator alleges that the company's data scraping practices violate the GDPR and other data accessing laws. If Clearview does not comply, the CNIL.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Last month, the enigmatic founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov was arrested in France. The 39-year-old Russian-born entrepreneur faces charges of failing to cooperate with law enforcement and complicity in crimes committed on the platform, including distribution of child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking, and fraud.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Answer : • Countries should provide for a copyright exception in their national laws to allow nonprofit organizations serving people with disabilities to make accessible versions of inaccessible books and other content • Import and export of such accessible materials shall be permitted 2. for more than 15 years, and it’s worked great!

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

The European Parliament has formally adopted a law requiring internet companies to “remove or disable access to flagged terrorist content” within one hour after being notified by national authorities. The legislation will come into force 12 months after it is published in the EU’s official journal , a standard step for all EU law.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

It also allows individual users to sue platforms like Facebook and Google if they break the law, granting up to $5,000 in relief per violation. The bill empowers the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general with the authority to enforce the new rules for ad targeting. Booker said in a statement on Tuesday.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 1, 2025

Image credit: Photo by cottonbro studio on pexels In late December 2024, New York State Senator Andrew Gounardess legislation to protect domestic violence survivors was signed into law. The legislation comes as law enforcement struggles to address the evolving role of technology in domestic violence cases.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2021

That converts to about $887 million US, which would be the largest fine ever under Europe’s data protection law. EU commissioners announced in November 2020 that it was their belief Amazon’s retail business misused non-public data to compete with other sellers in France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Around 80% of them are based in France. There are tens of millions of employees in France, the U.K., There are tens of millions of employees in France, the U.K., Labor laws vary from one country to another, which means that there could be different geographical leaders as there’s a natural barrier to entry.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In France, there’s no Instacart or pure player in the grocery delivering space. I think impatience is unsustainable because of unit economics, labor laws, the impact on small shops and cities. Thanks to his experience at Bolt, he probably knows a thing or two about logistics and operating a marketplace at scale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

In France, co-owners of the common space of a building can decide to ditch the company that handles residential building management for them and do it themselves. They can help you make sure you comply with the law and file paperwork for you. The company is building a vertical SaaS for residential property management.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. A draft law agreed by ministers was presented to the parliament last month. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In July 2020, France’s parliament passed an anti-waste law with some drastic changes. Pyxo is already working with an unnamed fast food chain in France to help them switch to reusable packaging. Restaurants have to switch to reusable food containers by January 2023.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

France and Germany. Anti-Uber (and anti-Cabify) strikes have, meanwhile, been a quasi-regular (and sometimes violent) feature of Spain’s streets — as the taxi industry has protested at a perceived lack of enforcement of the law against app-based rivals who are not competing fairly, as it sees it. And we have a rule of law.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

The report , released today by the US Public Research Interest Group’s Education Fund, draws on data companies are now releasing in France to comply with the government’s world-first “repairability index” law , which went into effect last year. Companies were penalized for lobbying against right to repair laws. “If

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Uber will work with automakers — General Motors in the US and Canada, and Renault-Nissan in cities in the UK, France, Netherlands, and Portugal — to “extend attractive offers” on electric vehicles to drivers. A similar plan is underway in France, where Uber plans to set some of its own money to help French drivers purchase EVs.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2021

The complaints filed in France, Austria, Greece, Italy, and the United Kingdom say that the company’s method of documenting and collecting data — including images of faces it automatically extracts from public websites — violates European privacy laws.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The site boasted some 500,000 users and facilitated around 320,000 transactions, reports the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, with clientele buying and selling everything from malware and stolen credit card information, to weapons and drugs. DarkMarket was taken offline earlier this year as part of an international operation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” Going forward, it will focus instead on its home market of Germany, as well as France, the Netherlands, the UK and the US, which it says collectively account for 90% of its revenues currently.The announcement came on the heels of a report in the German press last night about the layoffs.

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The Verge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Specifically, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress multiple times , outlining a series of leaks she released after leaving the social media company. This bipartisan push for greater transparency into tech comes after Facebook faced months of criticism from lawmakers over how the company may harm users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

. “In most jurisdictions, personal information that is ‘publicly available’, ‘publicly accessible’ or ‘of a public nature’ on the internet, is subject to data protection and privacy laws,” they write. France’s privacy watchdog eyes protection against data scraping in AI action plan

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

The argument for stories In 2003, John Sadowsky and Loick Roche, two professors at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, reviewed the major academic literature on storytelling and wrote a paper called, "The power of stories: a discussion of why stories are powerful". Nonprofits are adding stories to their fundraising messages.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

That’s much faster than VanMoof’s current e-bikes, which are capped at 25km/h in Europe and 20mph in the US, and well beyond what local laws currently allow. The VanMoof V will initially be sold in the Netherlands, Germany, France, the UK, the US, and Japan for $3,498/€3,498/£3,498.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Verbit was founded in 2017 by Livne, who previously had a career in law. and Australia, plans to expand further into Europe, including Germany, France, Spain and others, Livne said. Verbit is a step closer to its planned IPO in the near future after closing the Series E, Livne said when asked regarding its listing plan.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It also mentions that renters will have to follow local laws and building rules about putting their place on Airbnb, along with the company’s own community guidelines. In France, it’s mandatory for the renters to take written permission from the landlord to sublet the house. Last year, the city of Paris fined Airbnb $9.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

As well as the UK and Spain, GoPuff operates in France — where it launched in March in Paris and the majority of Île-de-France, plus parts of Marseille, Lille, and Toulouse — kicking off its launch there with talk of further expansion soon. No formal objections have been filed — and the probe may yet come to nothing.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The SOC specifically cited the retention of union-busting law firm WilmerHale as one of the deficiencies in Activision Blizzard’s strategy. Kotick called the allegations “troubling” after chief compliance officer Frances Townsend stated that the lawsuit was “meritless” and the allegations within “distorted.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Belgium, France and Germany makes Amsterdam a natural gateway to those markets. And Brexit is helping: The Dutch are highly proficient in English and Dutch law is similar to English law, which means U.K.-based The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone.

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Candid

JULY 2, 2021

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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The Verge

MAY 7, 2021

In response, the FTC wants to develop new laws and rules surrounding repairs, but it also wants better enforcement of existing legislation like the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (MMWA). While it also encourages manufacturers to self-regulate, the FTC concedes that the broad range of industries and products involved would make that a challenge.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The WSJ also reports that Kotick himself was the one who drafted the widely criticized letter that was supposedly written by Activision Blizzard exec Frances Townsend. In that second Kotick memo, he announced that Activision Blizzard had hired an independent law firm to review the company’s practices — known union-busting law firm WilmerHale.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

More of that buzz, you know, it’s just a matter of when one of these bills becomes law. Do you talk to people who make laws, whether it’s in Congress or in the White House or anywhere about this? So Fidelity offering it at the consumer level and investing in the issuer is a big deal. What are their views?

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Further, differences in the law in some countries can result in you spending significant money for little gain. Each of these inventions may need its own patent application, which can quickly multiply the cost to your business and make filing for patent protection prohibitively expensive.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

The first thing any American notices when coming to Amsterdam is that unlike Germany and France, everyone speaks English. The Swedes have the law of Jante , the Anglo-sphere has Tall poppy syndrome , but us Dutch have a saying that epitomizes our exaggerated egalitarian desires: “Act normal, that is strange enough.” Serious talent.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Times report indicated that French ministers have also attempted to persuade Shein to list in France. Previously, Shein admitted that employees at its Chinese factories worked more hours than allowed under the countrys labor laws. Several senior British politicians have called for stricter scrutiny of the listing.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

One point worth noting is that Charles has specifically built its platform with Europe’s data privacy laws (i.e. ” Although Charles has seen the most traction in its domestic German market, it has already seen some inbound interest from Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the U.K. GDPR) firmly in mind.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At Facebook, it led to Frances Haugen and the Facebook Files. The social media platform examined tweets from elected officials in seven countries – the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and Japan. There’s this law of unintended consequences to large systems,” said Williams, who previously worked at Google and Facebook. “It

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