Macron on Wednesday welcomed Zuckerberg and the leaders of dozens of other tech companies, including Microsoft, Uber, and IBM, at a conference named "Tech for Good" meant to address things like workers' rights, data privacy and tech literacy. Macron sees himself as uniquely placed to both understand and influence the tech world. And Macron has defended an aggressive new European data protection law that comes into effect this week. Aides to Macron acknowledged companies like Facebook have become more influential than governments. Macron, Zuckerberg and others are then expected to attend the Vivatech gadget show in Paris on Thursday.

Source: ABC News May 23, 2018 06:21 UTC