Business | Regulating technology companies
Taming the beasts
European governments are not alone in wondering how to deal with digital giants
|BRUSSELS AND PARIS
TALK to Axelle Lemaire, a French secretary of state in charge of all things digital, and one topic quickly comes up: online platforms of the kind operated by tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Uber. “France is very open to them,” she insists, “but consumers have to be protected.”
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Taming the beasts”
From the May 28th 2016 edition
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