France to ditch American video conferencing services

Paris is planning to replace Teams and Zoom with a locally developed app, bucking the EU’s heavy reliance on US technology, a senior state official has said

The French authorities plan to phase out American videoconferencing services, such as Teams and Zoom, within a year and replace them with a domestically developed app, Minister Delegate for the Civil Service David Amiel said on Saturday. The country needs to “detoxify itself” from US technology, he explained.