Here you will find all the articles with the tag: European Union.
Cloud service providers seeking contracts within the EU will face less stringent sovereignty rules than previously anticipated. Europe appears to be removing a requirement that providers be independent of laws and regulations outside the EU. Large cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Googl... Read more
22 days ago
The European Commission is opening its first investigations to check for compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alphabet (parent company of Google), Apple and Meta will be the first to be scrutinized. Executive EC Vice President Margarethe Vestager and European Commissioner Thierry Breto... Read more
1 month ago
European privacy watchdog EDPS is taking the European Commission (EC) to task. The EC is alleged to have flouted several data management rules. The EDPS points out that the EC did not sufficiently consider the data that might end up outside the EU. Now the regulator is demanding that the Commiss... Read more
2 months ago
Update 3:25 p.m. - Spotify's response. The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), has fined Apple 1.8 billion euros. The company allegedly unfairly hindered other music streaming service providers on its platform. For example, they could not inform users about cheaper... Read more
2 months ago
Both the European Union and its individual member states hope to become more digitally autonomous. However, for AI implementations, they rely more often than not on non-European companies. A sovereign digital infrastructure should prevent this external dependence. Some nations have already taken so... Read more
2 months ago
Apple faces another EU competition investigation. This is the result of blocking so-called "progressive web applications" or PWAs in iOS 17.4. The change was made by Apple to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple is once again the subject of an EU competition investigation. More ... Read more
2 months ago
Two phones of European parliamentarians have shown traces of spyware. The subcommittee focused on security and defense appears to have been targeted by state hackers, but the culprit is unknown. The discovery was reported by Politico, which warned back in December that the European Parliament's ... Read more
2 months ago
EU member states should invest more in upgrading the undersea infrastructure of Internet cables. This should better ensure the security of this critical infrastructure, states a soon to be presented proposal from the European Commission. According to the proposal, seen by Politico, the EU should... Read more
2 months ago
Apple faces a fine of about 500 million euros in early March. EU policymakers would like to punish Apple for allegedly anticompetitive behaviour in offering music services. The antitrust notice was filed by Spotify in 2019, alleging that iPhone users are not getting informed about alternative st... Read more
2 months ago
The European Gigabyte Infrastructure Act has been provisionally approved with amendments. The legislation should allow accelerated deployment of a gigabit networks in member states. However, the technical details still need to be worked out. The European Commission, European Council and European... Read more
3 months ago
