American tech companies operate seven of the 10 most visited websites in Europe, according to comScore statistics. ...Yes, Europeans have their privacy laws, but in practice, they give up their privacy more readily than Americans.
Nonetheless, from Spain to Sweden, many of Europe’s millions of Internet users regularly complain about the dominance of American tech companies, particularly about how their data is used and shared. It also leaves them wondering why so few homegrown tech companies are globally competitive.
For many Europeans, the likes of Twitter and Amazon hold too much information about what people do online. That wariness has only grown stronger after the revelations by Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, about American intelligence agencies’ spying activities and perceived easy access to the world’s tech infrastructure.
Monday, July 07, 2014
Europeans love American products
Europeans are always complaining about American stuff, but it sure seems to me that they love everything American. The NY Times reports:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I agree. Europeans are not coming up with much competition for the global American tech companies either.
Post a Comment