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Today it became known that Twitter is accepting Elon Musk's takeover bidfor 44 billion dollars. In the run-up, the Tesla boss had announced:
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have made a deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at the negotiating table as Rapporteur for the Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE) and summarises:
The European Union agreed on new regulations that require social media companies and online marketplaces to remove illegal content. Advertisement targeting minors will also be banned.
On 8 April 2014 the European Court of Justice annulled the EU Data Retention Directive which required the bulk collection of any citizens call detail records and location. 8 years later EU Com-mission and EU governments are scheming how to maintain or restore bulk collection pro-grammes - writes Dr. Patrick Breyer MEP In a legal […]
In the EU, all signs point to crypto regulation, but the path is causing debate. A minimal limit of EUR 1,000 previously proposed by the EU Commission is also to be dropped – every crypto amount down to the cent range should be traceable in the future. The strict testing procedure for crypto exchanges It is argued in the amendment with measures against money laundering. In addition, the authors refer to the sometimes-common practice of splitting more significant transactions into smaller amounts and distributing them to wallet addresses that do not appear to be connected. You are therefore c...