Developing story The European Parliament has adopted the copyright directive 348-274. The EU will get #uploadfilters and a counterproductive right for press publishers. #Article13 #Article11 #SaveYourInternet pic.twitter.com/Cu9eyI2Xqo— Creative Commons (@creativecommons) March 26, 2019 Europe has approved a sweeping overhaul of copyright rules, dealing a blow to major tech companies that argued the changes will be …
Through the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that comes into effect across the European Union on May 25, the European Union is preparing to enforce a sweeping new data protection law that gives consumers much more control over how their personal details are used. Companies are scrambling to comply. Going forward, companies that sell goods …
This May, a sweeping new data protection law will go into effect across Europe that will change the way tech companies do business anywhere on the continent. It’s called the General Data Protection Regulation, and it is designed to unify all the different privacy policies maintained by European Union states into a single set of …
December 2, 2014 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today welcome the EU Council on Telecommunication (TTE) for its Conclusions on Internet Governance adopted on 27 November 2014. The Conclusions underline “that the governance of Internet is expected to include all stakeholders” and “the importance of strengthening the Internet Governance Forum …
France is being broadly backed by the European Commission in its call for safeguards on who gets access to .wine and .vin internet domain names, setting up a potential legal showdown with the US government. Enraged French officials said today (26 June) that the body responsible for assigning web domain names, ICANN, is unfit to …
The NYF Africa 2014 focused on transformation: unlocking the competitiveness of the African economy through building value chains around the transformation of the continent’s natural resources, including its human capital. In knowledge economies, such as those in the western world, education is the foundation of economic competitiveness and global prosperity – and is inseparable from …
What if the World Wide Web were hit by a cyber-attack so massive as to threaten government infrastructures, banking systems, and email — and nobody noticed? That’s what’s reportedly happening right now. According to BBC News, a feud between a Dutch spam host and a spam filter vendor has spilled over into a series of …
