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Global:
The EU’s Tech Power. Law firms aren’t the only legal entities in Europe that are busy these days. The EU has been developing a global strategy for tech regulation, filling a void left by the United States, which has so far failed to act. And the new plans have the leaders of Big Tech concerned, prompting Silicon Valley executives to visit Brussels. Last week, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg met with Margrethe Vestager, the executive vice president of the European Commission, at the EU headquarters. Before Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, visited top officials in Brussels, as did Apple’s senior vice president for artificial intelligence.
