Data Protection: Europe Vs. The United States

Long before the term "uberisation" made its way into everyday parlance, the digitisation of means of payment had already turned practices in the world of finance, industry and commerce upside down. First, remote internet or mobile phone payments based on debit and credit cards, then Paypal payments linking electronic wallets and bank accounts and now contactless payments by card or mobile phone: the growth of e-commerce — like convenience shopping — is coming to rely more and more heavily on electronics, the new key to mass consumption.

The formation of the debit and credit card economic interest consortium in the 1980s clearly played its part in this development, though France remains relatively well placed in the world of digital finance, ranking sixth in the world after the United Kingdom in third place and Germany in fifth. In October 2015, the French government launched a "national payment means strategy" designed to further strengthen competitiveness in the