A substantial European Commission’s fine looming over Google

Android’s dominant position on the market helped Google to abuse and to promote their own services and apps, while imposing severe conditions over mobile network operators and manufacturers and thus, brushing aside competitors’ solutions. The EC sees this as an infringement of the EU Competition Law.       After…

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L'UE et la Chine ont signé un accord pour le développement commun des réseaux 5G

Le 28 septembre 2015 à Beijing, le commissaire européen, chargé de l’économie et de la société numériques, M. Günther Oettinger et M. Miao Wei, le ministre chinois de l’industrie et des technologies de l’information ont signé le partenariat pour un développement des réseaux 5G. Malgré la puissance des réseaux 4G,…

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Data Protection Officers: towards a better data protection?

The Directive 95/46/EC gave European Union member states the possibility to introduce into their national law the appointment of a Data Protection Officer (DPO), but it is still optional. Today, the European Commission’s draft reforming the EU framework on Data Protection Regulation sets forward in art. 35 that the DPO role will be mandatory for personal data processing that affects large amounts of individuals (≥ 5000 data subjects in 12 months), location data or children´s data in large scale filing systems.

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The digital single market

The Single Market is one of the main achievements of the European Union. It allows the removal of barriers and the simplification of rules to achieve its goal of free movement of goods, persons, services and capital.
Flag_of_Europe - wikipedia“The Digital Single Market is a huge potential,” according to Michel Barnier, the European Commission, responsible for Internal Market and Services.
The European Union frankly admits encourage the development of electronic commerce within the Single Market is one of the key areas to make the most competitive and most dynamic in the world. Indeed, cross-border e-commerce can benefit both consumers and businesses. This is a significant potential to increase the European economy. The financial and economic crisis has hit all economies and across all sectors. The single market is an asset to boost the economy of the Member States. Thus, “if the e-commerce accounted for 15% of total European trade – instead of the current 5% – this would result in 1.7% extra growth per year” according to Michel Barnier. (suite…)

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Data Protection Law in Romania

Privacy and protection of personal data is a relatively new field for the legislative framework in Romania. Being a member of the European Union since January 1st, 2007, Romania implemented the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC into the national legislation in November 2001 through Law no 677/2001 on the protection of individuals with regards to the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data (“The Data Protection Law“).
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The data protection law applies to the processing of personal data performed, totally or partially, through automatic means, as well as to the processing through means other than automatic. Its provisions also address crucial factors such as legitimate processing, data quality, definitions of the fundamental terms (e.g. operator, data subject, processing etc.), the rights of the data subjects and the obligations of the operators of personal data, and it designates the Romanian Supervisory Authority on data protection.
In addition to providing guarantees in relation to the collection and processing of personal data, it outlaws the processing of “sensitive” data on a person’s race, politics, health, religion, sexual life, criminal record, etc., in the absence of proper legal safeguards. (suite…)

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FCC approves anti-net neutrality rules

On May 15, 2014, the American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a new set of rules, putting an end to net neutrality in the United States. These new rules aim at protecting an open and neutral Internet said Tim Wheeler, chairman of the FCC. Internet service providers (ISPs) will be able to offer premium services to content providers to allow them a faster access to broadband. This is meant to prevent ISPs from slowing down the broadband traffic.
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The FCC’s newly adopted regulation directly violates the net neutrality principle. “Net neutrality” is an expression coined by Tim Wu, in 2003,to describe the principle that all internet content should be treated equally. This principle also ensures that all Internet connections are free from surveillance. You can read more about the origins and content of net neutrality (with a focus on France and Europe) here. (suite…)

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Eurobilltracker: Follow your Euro notes in their tracks!

Since more than 12 years, this Finnish website offer you to track your banknotes within the world. The purpose of this non-profit association is only to follow the path of European banknotes, for fun.
Art 8 - image 1 In 2002, 11 European countries abandoned their national currencies for the Euro. Since Latvia joined the euro-zone on the first of January 2014, there are now 18 countries which are officially using this currency.
In 1998, an American website called “Where’s George?” was created, in order to allow people to track their US dollars notes. A similar website was created here after for the Canadian dollar, and in 2002, Eurobilltracker arose, in order to offer the same service with European banknotes.
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