France
France's Constitutional Council rejected a law that would have banned access to social media for under-15s. The court demands more precise regulation, as the law restricted freedom of speech and communication too much.
In France, a law came into force in August 2026 that banned telesales and telemarketing. Calling is only permitted in cases where the consumer has personally given permission for telesales.
Netflix will start airing linear TV broadcasts within its apps by summer 2026. Netflix and French media company TF1 announced the partnership, which will also bring TF1's on-demand content to French Netflix users.
France thinks that by removing easy-to-access Netflix button, it would draw audiences to French TV channels.
Apple has been hit with a huge €1.1 billion fine by French authorities, while two wholesalers were also targeted with large fines in the country.
Google has agreed to pay almost a billion euros to settle a tax fraud case in France, which was initiated with a raid on its French offices four years ago.
Uber has been fined €800,000 ($907,000) in France over its cheap UberPop service, a service that was banned in 2014.
According to the French finance ministry, the country is seeking $1.76 billion in back taxes from search giant Google, not the first time a European nation has demanded taxes back from the company.
For the last few years, Netflix has been quietly and not-so-quietly expanding into Europe.
Google has been fined €150,000 by a French watchdog after it ignored a three month ultimatum to bring its privacy policies in line with French law.
French independent broadcasting authority, the Superior Council of Audiovisual, says it wants to tax all media companies so they can contribute to financing French culture.
French authorities have announced that they are fining Google over $400,000 for data privacy violations.
A French regulatory body is investigating conditions in Apple contracts with national mobile providers that sell its iPhones.
A number of years ago, the French government enacted a new law that would punish repeat offenders for piracy violations.
Google has once against come under fire in Europe, with France and Spain probing its change to its privacy policies, made in 2012.
The French government is planning to introduce new restrictions that would stop Amazon from being able to offer discounts on books, while also offering free delivery.
Twitter has been ordered by a French court to reveal the identities of users who posted anti-Semitic tweets on the service.
The French government is reportedly flirting with the idea of taxing popular consumer electronics products as a way to maintain funding for cultural projects.
Country to invest €20 billion for better infrastructure
Google has settled a long-standing dispute with French book publishers and authors over the unauthorized digitization of out-of-print works.
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