This week, the European Parliament approved two resolutions on the data transfers between the EU and the United States and United Kingdom respectively.
The Data Adequacy debate spurred from a ruling of the Court of Justice of
the European Union from July 2020, the now famous Schrems II.
A series of EU nations have started to make their cases for the nomination as the bloc’s next cybersecurity hub. This week, take a look at the battle for Europe’s new cyber centre. ...
This week, 150 prominent writers and academics including Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Margaret Atwood, Francis Fukuyama, Salman Rushdie, and J.K Rowling, have written an open letter calling for free speech to be preserved online, amid an ongoing trend towards 'cancel culture.' Could such a narrative have any influence on the future direction of policy in this area? EURACTIV’s Digital Editor Samuel Stolton examines the issue further. ...
The European Commission has warned against the processing and storage of location data in the use of mobile applications designed to trace the potential spread of the coronavirus across the bloc. EURACTIV Digital Editor Samuel Stolton looks into this issue further, in addition to giving a breakdown of the week’s biggest European tech news stories in the world of politics and policy. ...