Here you will find all the articles with the tag: EU.
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) investigates compliance with contractual arrangements between EU institutions and the tech giant. The EDPS has made this known. The research will show whether the use of the products is in accordance with privacy rules. Various EU institutions and bodi... Read more
5 years ago
The day before yesterday, Europe approved the controversial copyright legislation. Critical sections 11 and 13 were passed separately by a narrow majority. It now appears that 13 MEPs have made a mistake and the outcome could have been completely different. The European Parliament approved new rules... Read more
5 years ago
The European Parliament has approved a new and controversial directive on copyright. The latter places the responsibility for what users post on a platform at that platform, and according to critics will thus encourage censorship. The European Parliament has approved new rules on copyright. The new ... Read more
5 years ago
Google has once again received a billion-dollar fine from the European Commission. This time, Commissioner Margrethe Vestager imposes a fine of 1.49 billion euros on the company for abusing its dominant position in the online advertising market. Google would have used its dominant position to disadv... Read more
5 years ago
Google is again fined by the European Union. This time it would be unfair competition with advertising platform AdSense. Sources close to Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition, say that this week the fine will be confirmed. In total, three sources report to the Financial Times th... Read more
5 years ago
Margrethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition at the European Union, would rather have access to data regulated for digital giants than have these companies split up. That's what she said in an interview at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Breaking up a business goes a long way. In this case,... Read more
5 years ago
Negotiations on the controversial EU Copyright Directive have been concluded. There was a great deal of criticism of Articles 11 and 13 in particular, but they remain in the text after years of negotiations. The European Parliament will shortly be voting on the directive, which is very likely to be ... Read more
5 years ago
Following the European Parliament elections in May, Google is extending its DDoS protection service Project Shield to the European Union. The service is made available free of charge to political parties and organisations involved in election campaigns and the electoral process. Project Shield comes... Read more
5 years ago
Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to companies operating in the European Union, 59,000 data leaks have been received by the relevant authorities. It is striking that the Netherlands leads the list with no less than 15,400 reported data leaks. This is the conclusion of resea... Read more
5 years ago
The United States has asked its European allies not to buy equipment from Huawei or other Chinese manufacturers for new mobile networks such as 5G. That's what Reuters says. The US sees the European Union as the most important in a global effort to prevent the use of the equipment in networks. An of... Read more
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