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EU registers citizens’ initiative seeking ban on mass surveillance technology A citizens’ initiative will have one year to raise support for a proposal to ban widespread public use of technologies such as facial recognition. Operating as the Reclaim Your Face campaign, this group demands transparency in how facial recognition tools are being used by authorities and companies across Europe. Reclaim Your Face is supported by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) association, which challenged plans for public biometric surveillance included in the Security Union package presented by the Europea...
What did you decide in today's Joint Committee meeting? Today's meeting covered all main issues related to the implementation of the Withdrawal Agr... European Commission Press release Bratislava, 17 Dec 2020 The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF) signed a €49 million guarantee with Slovenská sporitelna (SLSP), the largest financial institution in Slovakia, to support SMEs and mid-caps impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic European Commission Questions and answers Brussels, 17 Dec 2020 Why did you need to revise Regulation 883/2013? The revision of the so-...
Met dank overgenomen van Europese Commissie (EC), gepubliceerd op woensdag 16 december 2020. We are back in front of you today with a second security package in as many weeks. This shows our determination to make the Security Union a reality. We do not need to look far to see why this is also a necessity at the current juncture. Last September the Dusseldorf University Clinic in Germany was hit by a ransomware attack, which crippled the entire IT network of the hospital and forced Health staff to direct emergency patients elsewhere. The cyberattack resulted in a woman seeking emergency treatm...
An EU-wide Cyber Shield and Joint Cyber Unit were just some of the plans unveiled on Wednesday as part of Europe's bolstered cybersecurity strategy. EU High Representative Josep Borrell, Commission Vice-President Margaritis Schinas and Commissioner Thierry Breton laid out the strategy at a press conference in Brussels, promising it would strengthen the "collective resilience against cyber threats" across the bloc. Among the initiatives is the use of AI-enabled Security Operations Centres established across the EU to create a "Cyber Shield" that detects signs of attack and can launch early pre...