European Commission launches consultation on net neutrality
And so it begins. The European Commission this morning launched a consultation on key questions regarding the contentious issues of net neutrality and the open Internet. The consultation covers such...
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EC Opens Antitrust Proceedings To Investigate Apple, E-book Publishers ‘Cartel’
The European Commission this morning announced that it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate whether a number of international ebook publishers have engaged in anti-competitive...
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European Commission Wants Single Set Of Website Accessibility Rules To Apply...
The EC has proposed new rules to improve public sector website accessibility for disabled people, describing the current situation as “dire” — with only one third of Europe’s 761,000 public sector and...
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EU Issues Formal Objections Against Samsung For Patent Abuse
The European Commission has delivered a “statement of objections” to Samsung’s leadership, in which it claims that Samsung was abusing its standard-essential patents in preventing Apple from making...
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European Parliament Draft Reports Back EC’s Data Protection Reform — And...
The European Parliament has issued two draft reports on the reform of European data protection rules, proposed by the European Commission last January, expressing “full support for a coherent and...
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Google To Be Pushed To Improve The Visibility Of Specialised Search Rivals To...
With the outcome of a two-year long EC investigation into its search practices looming, Google is likely to have to change how it presents search results in Europe to improve the visibility of rival...
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European Publishers, Others Slam Google On “Abusive” Practices, Ask EC To...
It looks like it may be back to the drawing board for Google on the European competitive front: hundreds of publishers and publishing trade associations today are coming out in force to ask the...
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European Commission Wants MOOCs Providers To Help Boost Regional Web Skills
The MOOCs movement has generally lagged in Europe compared to the U.S. But regional providers are being established here in the Old World, such as Berlin-based iversity and the U.K.’s Futurelearn...
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Facebook Asks Europe To Review Its $19B WhatsApp Buy: An Explainer
Facebook has already had its $19 billion acquisition of messaging service WhatsApp approved by the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., but in order to make sure that national regulators in European...
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Publishers Push For EC To Reject Almunia’s Google Antitrust Proposal
The long-running saga involving a European investigation into Google over alleged antitrust violations has taken another turn: today a group of European publishers have come out urging the European...
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Apple Relabels “Free” Download Buttons On iTunes And Mac App Store To “Get”...
Across the iTunes and Mac App Stores today, a minor but also notable change is taking place with regard to how Apple is marketing its iOS and Mac applications. Instead of free apps being labeled as...
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Europe Sets Out Three Month Timetable To Seal New Data-Transfer Deal With U.S.
The European Commission has said it wants ongoing talks with the U.S. to agree a so-called ‘Safe Harbor 2.0’ agreement on data transfers to be completed by January 2016 — laying out a three month...
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EU-US Safe Harbor Data Flow Talks Still Sticking On Surveillance
As the three-month deadline for Europe and the U.S. to agree a new transatlantic data transfer deal looms, EC officials are briefing that the U.S. needs to do more to improve transparency around its...
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Safe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet
A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner...
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Europe And US Seal ‘Privacy Shield’ Data Transfer Deal To Replace Safe Harbor
A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield replaces the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European...
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Draft Text Of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Deal Fails To Impress The Man Who Slayed...
The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the US to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy compliance...
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Europe eyes new rules for online platforms
The European Union’s executive body has today set out a series of proposals for new rules that would apply to a broad range of online platforms, from the likes of YouTube to Google to eBay, as part of...
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EU backs light-touch regulation for on-demand companies like Uber and Airbnb
On-demand companies like Uber and Airbnb may be coming under scrutiny in some European countries for allegedly contravening local laws, but today the European Commission threw them a line of support....
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Europe agrees cyber threat strategy, plans to help fund more startups
The European Parliament has voted to adopt a set of measures aimed at bolstering resilience to digital threats and improving cybersecurity cooperation and info sharing across its 28 Member States....
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EU-US Privacy Shield open for sign ups from today
U.S. companies needing to transfer personal data of European customers across the Atlantic can now sign up to a new framework to govern such data transfers, with the so-called EU-US Privacy Shield up...
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