The European Court of Justice has declared the controversial obligation of platforms to automatically filter out copyright-infringing content under the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive) to be permissible in principle but has attached conditions to its use.Today’s Article 17 (still under the draft name Article 13) of the DSM-RL had […]
The main sticking points before the trilogue are two issues that have not yet been finally resolved: first, the issue of dark patterns, for which the French Council Presidency has firmly promised a solution in the DSA in the course of the negotiations on the Digital Markets Act. And secondly, the Parliament’s express wish for […]
The last outstanding distribution of digital responsibilities between the federal ministries has now also been clarified: Four months after the new federal government took office, the Environment and Consumer Affairs Department under Steffi Lemke (Greens) and the Federal Ministry of Justice under Marco Buschmann (FDP) have now also reached agreement and concluded an administrative arrangement.The […]
Reuters news agency reporters have learned through two EU employees and documents that several EU officials were the subject of an attempted spyware attack by Israeli manufacturers last year. The most prominent person affected: EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders. In addition to him, other high-ranking Commission employees are said to have been victims of […]
In a decision published yesterday, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) welcomed the political agreement for a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (TADPF). The new regulation on a legal basis for the transfer of personal and person-related data from the EU to the US had been approved a few days ago on the sidelines of Joe […]
It was the last necessary step, and now the compromise reached in the trialogues on the Data Governance Act (DGA) has been adopted in the European Parliament. With 501 votes in favor, just 12 against, and 40 abstentions, the first building block of the data strategy has thus also formally passed the procedure.Rapporteur Angelika Niebler […]
Since the landmark ruling in 2014 on mass and comprehensive data retention without any reason, as decided in 2006, the judges have had to deal with creative ideas from the member states time and again. Throughout Europe, legislators were not deterred from once again adopting variants of data retention – in Germany, most recently by […]
For years, Elon Musk has had a love-hate relationship with Twitter. On the one hand, the entrepreneur uses his popularity on the platform for self-dramatization – so much so that it has already landed him in trouble with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. On the other hand, Musk is regularly dissatisfied with Twitter’s corporate […]
DMA, DSA, and AI Regulation have one thing in common: Their effectiveness is questionable without enforcement. How this is to be done in concrete terms is one of the thorny questions, that is answered differently in each of the legislative acts. Particularly under the impression of deficits in the decentrally organized enforcement of the GDPR […]
The EU and the US have agreed on an improved Privacy Shield. “We’ve agreed to unprecedented protections for data privacy and security for citizens,” US President Joe Biden said Friday at a press conference with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. “We are very pleased that we found an agreement in principle on a new framework for transatlantic data flows,” von der Leyen said. This would make data traffic across the […]