EC

US Security Chief Calls EU 24-Hour Data Breach Notification Rule ‘Unworkable’

AT&T's chief privacy officer says the 24-hour deadline would force companies to notify all customers rather than just those affected

13 years ago

ENISA Issues Seven Recommendations To Improve ICS Security

ENISA report calls on European member states to improve cyber-security measures

13 years ago

EU Settles IBM Mainframe Antitrust Concerns

European regulators have accepted IBM’s mainframe maintenance move after antitrust concerns

13 years ago

EC Forms Online Child Protection Coalition

The EC has formed a coalition of 28 leading tech and media companies to improve children's online safety

13 years ago

US Patriots v EU Liberals In 2012 Cloud Olympics

Cloud services could lose, in an Olympian contest over privacy between US patriots and EU human rights defenders, says Eric…

13 years ago

ICO Starts Blogging With A Look At Online Privacy

The Information Commissioner's Office has set up a blog to allow discussion of data protection issues

13 years ago

EC To Study Europe-Wide Broadband Speeds

The EC is to carry out EU-wide broadband tests following disappointing results from an Ofcom probe

13 years ago

First Round To Apple As Samsung Told To Pull Tab

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will disappear from EU shelves if a court injunction is upheld

13 years ago

Satellite Broadband Providers Lobby EC For Funding

Satellite broadband needs public funding to close Europe's digital divide, say the vendors

13 years ago

European RFID Guide Sets NFC Privacy Guidelines

The PIA Framework is a guide to how privacy concerns should be accounted for in NFC implementations

14 years ago

EFF Demands Better Search Privacy In Europe

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants better EU protection for 'intimate' search records

14 years ago

Monopolist Microsoft Complains About Google

If Microsoft wins its European antitrust case against Google, it won't be any moral victory, says Clint Boulton

14 years ago

Microsoft Files EC Antitrust Complaint Against Google

Microsoft claims that Google is abusing its dominance in the online search market to block out rivals

14 years ago

EU Shuts Off Webmail After Another Cyber-Attack

The European Government was forced to shut off remote access to email during a five-day long cyber-attack

14 years ago

EU Lowers Targets For New E-Waste Rules

The EU Council has lowered e-waste targets from the 85 percent proposed by the European Parliament

14 years ago

EU To Act On Carbon Credit Fraud And Theft

The Climate Change Committee will block the holes that let thieves take £5 billion from the carbon exchange

14 years ago

Terrorist Tracking Could Open Europe To US Spying

The US can access EU financial data under an agreement designed to track terrorist funds

14 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Looks For Anti-Trust Compromise With EC

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said the search engine is willing to change its algorithms to head off a…

14 years ago

Britain Keeps Quiet About Data Protection Day

Friday was European Data Protection Day. Well, did you notice?

14 years ago

EC And US Agree On Health System Compatibility

European Commission and US have signed an agreement to harmonise interoperability of their health care systems

14 years ago

Report: Intel McAfee Deal May Face EC Probe

The European Commission has expressed concerns over Intel's $7.68bn deal to acquire McAfee

14 years ago

EC Calls For End To Mobile Roaming Charges

The European Commission wants to get rid of international roaming charges within the EU by 2015

14 years ago

EC Launches Formal Google Competition Probe

The EC will investigate whether Google used its dominant search position to lock out rivals

14 years ago

EU Chips In To Fund Symbian With €22 million

Symbian lives on with joint funding by the European Union and a new Symbeose consortium

14 years ago

FSF Fights BSA Over EC Support For Open Standards

The Free Software Foundation has accused the BSA of sabotaging the EC's support for open standards

14 years ago

EC Sues The UK Over Phorm Privacy Failure

BT’s secret trials of a behavioural advertising technology have landed the UK government in hot water with the European Commission

14 years ago

Europe Shows Growth In R&D Investment

Europe invested €3.8 billion in research and development and generated 54,000 highly qualified R&D jobs in 2009

14 years ago

EC Drops Apple Anti-Trust Probe

The European Commission has dropped its investigation into Apple's iPhone policies, after Apple relaxed its restrictions

14 years ago

EC Agrees New Measures For Digital Agenda

The European Commission has adopted several new measures in a bid to fulfil its goal of giving every European access…

14 years ago

European Commission Investigating IBM’s Mainframe Business

The EC has begun two investigations of IBM's mainframe businesses

14 years ago