Samuel Stolton Archives
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Digital Brief, powered by Facebook: Digital Tax, EU drone surveillance, data week
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “It is now time to get agreement on how to tax digital businesses." – German Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz. Top …
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EU Commission presses platforms to de-monetise disinformation
As part of a wider bid to clamp down on harmful content on the internet, the European Commission has urged major digital platforms to take measures to de-monetise disinformation online.
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EU Artificial Intelligence regulation at risk in WTO e-commerce deal, study says
The EU's attempts to regulate Artificial Intelligence could be met with future challenges resulting from an agreement on e-Commerce at the level of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to a new study published on Tuesday (26 January).
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Digital Brief, powered by Facebook: AI in EU, US tech rundown, Digital Euro plans
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “We cannot rely on the decisions made by algorithms." – Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. Story of the …
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EU Parliament under fire over ‘illegal US data transfers’ from COVID website
European Parliament services are coming under pressure from a group of lawmakers working with privacy activist Max Schrems over allegations that the institution's coronavirus test management website is illegally siphoning data to US-based firms.
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Dating apps and videoconferencing could be monitored in new EU data rules
Dating apps and videoconferencing tools could come under the scope of new EU efforts to monitor online communications in a bid to stamp out child sexual abuse material, internal documents obtained by EURACTIV reveal.
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Commission and ECB join forces on digital euro as privacy concerns emerge
The European Commission is to work alongside the European Central Bank (ECB) in probing a range of 'policy, legal and technical' pitfalls that could emerge as part of plans to introduce a digital euro crypto-currency in mid-2021.
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Hungary raises concerns about ‘shadow banning’ of online speech
The practice of so-called 'shadow banning' is stifling freedom of expression online and may have to be addressed through regulatory measures, Hungary's Minister of Justice Judit Varga has said, accusing Facebook of inhibiting "Christian, conservative, right-wing opinions".
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Digital Brief: The fate of free expression, Copyright in Germany, DPAs given more teeth
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “It is no longer acceptable in our view that platforms take some key decisions by themselves alone without any supervision." – …
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MEPs mull over ‘significant risks’ of Artificial Intelligence
MEPs have been urged to consider the 'significant risks' that next-generation Artificial Intelligence applications could entail, particularly with regards to discrimination, employment, and social exclusion.
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‘No longer acceptable’ for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says
It is "no longer acceptable" for social media giants to take key decisions on content removals online, following the high profile takedowns of US President Trump's accounts on Facebook and Twitter, the European Commission has said.
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MEP Cavazzini: Social media response to US riots raises new questions for EU tech rules
Members of the European Parliament have a renewed duty to address the thorny issue of regulating social media content, in the wake of last week’s Capitol Hill riots, the chair of Parliament’s Internal Market committee has said.
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EU nations divided on 5G security, auditors say
EU nations are 'progressing at different paces' in terms of security protocols introduced by the European Commission in order to ensure the safety of next-generation telecommunications networks, the European Court of Auditors has said.
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2021: A new European digital generation
Since the pandemic started last year, European citizens have had to radically realign their lives to the new reality. For the most part, this has meant rapidly migrating our personal and professional lives online. With this comes a broad range of policy measures aimed at reinforcing Europe’s connectivity and heightening cybersecurity standards across 2021.
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Thousands of EU domains registered to UK users ‘suspended’ after Brexit
Over 80,000 internet domain names assigned to UK registrants have been suspended by the EU registry, EURid, following the end of the Brexit transition period at the close of 2020.
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Digital Brief, powered by Google: DSA and DMA – member states respond
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. The Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act: An EU member state review “We need to make rules that put order into …
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‘We are a prime target,’ Schinas says, as Commission strives to bolster cyber resilience
The EU has been identified as a "prime target" by malicious global cyber attackers and the bloc needs to reinforce its capabilities to defend itself amid this new threat landscape, the European Commission has said.
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Commission vies to ‘put order into chaos’ with new digital crackdown
Online platform giants will be forced to abide by a broad range of obligations as part of ambitious new plans laid out by the European Commission in its Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) on Tuesday (15 December).
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Revealed: Commission ushers in new era of digital regulation
The European Commission will today (15 December) unveil a broad set of regulatory measures clamping down on global digital giants, as part of two landmark texts that will overhaul the operation of the platform economy in the EU.
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EU notaries highlight concern over ‘control and access’ in judiciary digitalisation
Notary services from across the bloc have said that the EU should pay attention to which global actors have 'control and access' to key technologies used in judicial processes in the ongoing digitalisation of the sector.
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Digital Brief, powered by Facebook: Indian disinfo, French data fines, Romanian CyberSec
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “We are looking into legal options to resolve this issue." – ECR MEP Angel Dzhambazki, who this week found himself at …
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New cross-border online terrorist content rules sparks rights concerns
EU lawmakers from the European Parliament and the Council signed off on new rules to police online terrorist content Thursday (10 December), in a move that will see pan-European removal orders issued from competent authorities of any EU member state.
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Explained: The Commission’s plans to digitalise the judiciary
The COVID-19 crisis has brought the need for digitalisation of justice to the forefront, says Salla Saastamoinen, stressing that "concerted effort is urgently needed, both at the national and EU level, to accelerate the digital transformation process of the justice sector".
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MEPs duped by manipulative Indian disinformation network
Researchers have unearthed a widespread, coordinated, and manipulative Indian disinformation operation in Brussels, with the creation of fake media organizations, the revival of defunct think-tanks, and even the fraudulent impersonation of dead people.