Europe’s data protection regulators are stepping up the pace in their dealings with US corporations. Yesterday’s decision by the EU Data Protection Committee caused a stir. Whether Meta Group’s Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now hardly debatable. But the method is legally decisive – among […]
Twitter’s course is uncertain. After layoffs and terminations, it is questionable whether and to what extent the social media platform wants to and can comply with current and future law in the EU. According to the Commission, EU Digital Commissioner Thierry Breton has now discussed with Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk how the platform […]
The European Parliament’s website was attacked on Wednesday with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In this attack method, the servers are flooded with requests from many different places. At times, the European Parliament’s website was therefore unavailable on Wednesday afternoon, as confirmed by EP President Roberta Metsola. It was not until shortly before […]
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson presented her proposal for a regulation to combat sexual child abuse and its depictions (Child Sexual Abuse Material, CSAM) on the Internet in the spring. Since then, there have been arguments and discussions. The Czech Council Presidency is satisfied with the progress made so far at the working […]
How hypocritical is European criticism of the World Cup in Qatar? Is FIFA president Gianni Infantino even right when he accuses the critics of hypocrisy?Sport and politics have long had a complicated relationship. That sporting events are apolitical has been an outright lie since ancient times. There are many examples in modern sports history – […]
The revision and extension of the Network and Information Security Directive NIS for cybersecurity has been approved by a large majority in parliament. “Even though it is the best cybersecurity legislation the continent has seen so far, we should not congratulate ourselves too much,” EP rapporteur Bart Groothuis (VVD/Renew) warned in plenary. Russia does not […]
In the run-up to the G7 foreign ministers’ meeting in Münster, Germany, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her US counterpart Anthony Blinken spoke about their digital foreign policy goals at the German-American Future Forum. Blinken emphasized that democracies must deal more intensively with the unintended consequences of new technologies: Cooperation is urgently needed to […]
One thing is virtually certain: When the Digital Services Act becomes applicable law on April 17, 2024, Twitter will fall under it – and then be subject to the EU Commission’s DSA supervision. This is because the platform currently meets all the criteria to be subject to the rules of the DSA in the future […]
The debate about the retention of connection and location data has been going on for almost two decades – in Germany and in the EU. As the technology evolved, courts successively placed tight limits on national implementations and the underlying EU regulation. Always opposed to large-scale retention: the liberal FDP and the Greens. Now they […]
The French data protection supervisory authority Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) imposed the highest possible fine under the General Data Protection Regulation of €20 million on the US facial recognition provider Clearview AI. In addition, CNIL ordered Clearview AI to cease all data collection and to verifiably delete the unlawfully collected data […]