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15 million Europeans online for the first time in 2011, half of EU labour force still without sufficient ICT skills

The European Commission has published its annual scoreboard on the progress of the implementation of the Digital Agenda in the European Union.
June 21, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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World Information Society Day 2012

Tomorrow, Thursday, 17 May is the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Focusing on the importance of information society and the issues related to it, the World Telecommunication Day marks the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). 
May 16, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Britain to monitor communications of all its citizens

The British government is to give intelligence services the right to monitor the electronic communications of every person in the United Kingdom, and do so without a warrant. The UK Home Office has said that it is considering changing the legislation as to allow all phone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet use to be
April 11, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Sweden to block Skype?

It has been reported that Swedish telecoms operators are seeking to block mobile phone users in Sweden from making free calls with services like Skype.
April 5, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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EU Cybercrime Centre to fight online frauds and identity theft

The European Commission has proposed to establish a EU Cybercrime Centre to fight online criminals and protect e-consumers. The centre will be located in the Hague, the Netherlands and will be part of the European Police Office or Europol. It is expected to start operations in January 2013.
April 3, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Digital Advertising Alliance announces tools for online advertising control

The American Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) has announced it is working on providing tools to allow US-based internet users to opt out of being tracked in online behavioral advertising (OBA). The DAA expects that within nine months users will be able to control OBA tracking via HTTP headers sent by their web browser. Read more
March 15, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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UK internet providers could act as intermediaries in defamation disputes

The UK Government has suggested that Internet Service Providers could act as go-betweens between parties involved in defamation disputes online. The suggestion comes as part of the reform of English libel legislation. 
March 12, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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Google’s new privacy policy not in compliance with EU law

The French data protection authority CNIL, tasked by EU privacy watchdogs to investigate Google’s new privacy policy has found that the policy does not seem to be in compliance with EU data protection legislation.
February 29, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice to examine ACTA

The European Commission has asked the European Court of Justice is to examine whether ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is incompatible with the European Union’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht has announced.
February 22, 2012 Comments (0) Share
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European Court of Justice rules against anti-piracy filter

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a social network cannot be made to install an anti-piracy filtering system.The judgment comes after SABAM, a Belgian institution that manages the copyright of  Belgian writers and composers wanted Netlog, a Belgian social networking website with some 94 million registered international users, to install a filtering system
February 20, 2012 Comments (0) Share