IMAGINING TOMORROW: BUSINESS FUTURES | 20 OCTOBER 1, 2023 Montagne and other French motorists may have a sympathetic ear at the Ministry of Transport in Paris. The ministry has issued a clarification saying that the new regulations—which, among other things, require all data pertaining to French citizens to be processed and stored on servers physically located in France—were not intended to hinder French citizens driving French-registered cars across borders. Meanwhile, the ministry has summoned carmakers for urgent talks to explain how the regulations apply to motorists. For their part, carmakers are wary and have temporarily disabled some features until their legal liability is clarified. And who can blame them, given recent, high-profile examples of companies breaking new rules that are often complex and unclear? Last week, a leading energy company was fined EUR 1.3 billion for failing to adequately separate its EU and United Kingdom data processing before the end of the pre-Brexit transition period. THTHEE W WORLDORLD OF OF REDESIGNING THE IMAGINATION THE AGE OF ““TETECHCHNONO--PPOLOLIITTIICSCS”” LIFE ECONOMY (IN)SECURITY