Le nouvel accord commercial en préparation entre l’Union européenne et les États-Unis va-t-il s’avérer être un cheval de Troie contenant des dispositions contenues dans le traité ACTA, pourtant enterré cet été par les eurodéputés ?…
Le sénateur de Moselle Jean-Louis Masson vient de questionner Fleur Pellerin, ministre déléguée à l’économie numérique. Il veut en substance savoir si l’anonymat des blogueurs ne pouvait pas être levé, avec une sanction à la…
Paris, 7 February 2013 – Commissioner De Gucht is currently in Canada, trying to conclude CETA, the Canada-EU Trade Agreement. Meanwhile, he has started negotiating with the US on TAFTA, a new US-EU “trade agreement”.…
Un « lobbying sans précédent » vise le projet européen de réforme de la protection des données personnelles. Un lobbying exercé par l’industrie, dominée par les géants américains du Web, et ce avec le concours…
Back in 2011, I noted that one of the most significant achievements of the Hargreaves report was its shockingly revolutionary suggestion that copyright policy should be based on the available evidence, not “lobbynomics”. The fact…
Brussels, 4 February 2013 — Today starts “Licences for Europe”, an initiative by the European Commission to discuss the issues of today’s copyright regime. Instead of planning for a broad reform that would break away…
A number of US NGOs and a pan-European industry group are speaking out against pressure from US lobbyists to relax EU privacy laws to suit Silicon Valley. […]
“We also found that the Europeans were excited…
Viviane Reding, the vice president of the European Commission and the justice commissioner of the European Union, was asked to comment on trans-Atlantic data protection issues for the Slipstream column by Natasha Singer in the…
EU businesses should not be allowed to use existing mechanisms for protecting personal data when sent outside the EU in cloud computing services, a European Parliament report has said. […]