The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.
Filtered results
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
EU Data Protection Regulation
Data protection marathon in Europe
The revelations of Edward Snowden have created a sense of urgency to finalise the future framework for protecting privacy and personal data in the European Union. But how far has it progressed?
gTLDs are the highest level of domain names in the domain name system, including .com, .net and .org; their number has been restricted to twenty-two for several years. This will change, as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the organisation responsible for managing and coordinating the system - rolls out a new gTLDs
Cloud computing is an inherently international matter, because it usually involves storage and processing of data in different locations. However, regulatory frameworks in non-EU contries do not always live up to European demands, i.e. concerning data protection. Looking at the EU cloud computing strategy, three political mechanisms can be
Internet of things
European Commission publishes report on internet of things
What does politics have to take into account when ever more objects are connect to the internet? EU experts publish their report on the “internet of things”.
EU Data Protection Regulation
The making of the EU’s Data Protection Regulation
People who deal with draft bills are in for the long haul. Uta Meier-Hahn explains how far the reform of EU’s data protection laws has progressed.
eGovernment
New eGovernment models embrace crowd sourcing
In early December 2012, the European Commission released a study on collaborative eGovernment . Drawing on case studies, the 150-page report makes policy recommendations to foster citizen participation in eGov. But how can companies do their share in ‘participatory eGov’?
