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Business Matters: Anger at French surveillance law 6 May 15

Wed, 6 May 15

The French parliament approves a new surveillance law designed to catch potential extremists. But civil liberties groups are outraged and say politicians are using the aftermath of the murders at Charlie Hebdo to snoop unchecked on the lives of journalists, business figures and ordinary people. Microsoft loses its latest legal battle to register an EU trademark for Skype because, lawmakers say, the name and its cloud-like logo might mean people confuse it with the broadcaster Sky. Mark Miller, from our US partner radio station Marketplace, tells us about the two big American companies changing the way they produce food for the mass market, and Tianjie Ma, of Greenpeace China, joins us from Beijing to explain the efforts there to curb pollution. And from Australia, a claim that visitors on working visas are being exploited by unscrupulous companies. Plus, special reports from inside Britain's oldest cinema, and the Vietnamese-American domination of the nail-bar business.