The European Investment Bank (EIB) fully supports the EU space program, which can play a key role in boosting the bloc’s efforts to battle climate change and curbing CO2 emissions, EIB Vice President Ambroise Fayolle told a press event during the online 13th European Space Conference on January 13.
Members of the European Parliament have a renewed duty to address the thorny issue of regulating social media content, in the wake of last week’s Capitol Hill riots, the chair of the Parliament’s Internal Market committee told EURACTIV.
Speaking following last week’s violent uprising in the US capital, Green MEP Anna Cavazzini said the world’s ‘eyes have been opened’ to the challenge of dealing with online disinformation and the spread of online hate.
“What we saw in Washington was horrific,” Cavazzini said. “But it’s a culmination of years of online hatred and fake news that has been built up over recent years. This is nothing new.”
Cillian Kieran is CEO and co-founder of Ethyca, a New York-based privacy company.
“A new law to follow” seems unlikely to have featured on many business wishlists this holiday season, particularly if that law concerned data privacy. Digital privacy management is an area that takes considerable resources to whip into shape, and most SMBs just aren’t equipped for it.
But for 2021, I believe startups in the United States should be demanding that legislators deliver a federal privacy law. Yes, they should demand to be regulated.
For every day that goes by without agreed-upon federal standards for data, these companies lose competitive edge to the rest of the world. Soon there may be no coming back.
2020 vision: A year in review
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most challenging in generations. Lorna Hutchinson looks back on an extraordinary twelve months.
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The year kicks off on a celebratory note, as Finland, Austria and Sweden celebrate 25 years of EU membership, when they became the 13th, 14th and 15th Member States of the EU following referendums in each of the states prior to accession.
Meanwhile, Brexit is at the forefront of many people’s minds as the 31 January deadline when the UK is due to leave the EU looms ever closer. EU citizens living and working in the UK as well as citizens’ rights groups and the European Parliament’s political groups express their growing concern over the impact that Britain’s exit from the bloc will have on their lives and legal status.
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On 15 December 2020, the European Commission released two much anticipated proposals for new regulations governing conduct in the digital space – the Digital Markets Act (“
DMA”) and the Digital Services Act (“
DSA”).
These proposals underscore the leading role the Commission, particularly under current Vice President Margrethe Vestager, is looking to play in connection with how companies active in the digital sector are regulated. The EU is being joined by other jurisdictions in pushing forward with further initiatives in this space, with other major economies also looking critically at how they regulate players in the digital and tech sector. The United Kingdom has, for example, recently announced that it will put in place new Codes of Conduct to govern the market conduct of major platforms, which will be enforced by a Digital Markets Unit at the Competition & Markets Authority. Germany is amending its