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10 votes
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Manufacturers will be forced to create a universal charging solution for phones and small electronic devices, under a new rule proposed by the European Commission
42 votes -
EU set to unveil digital wallet fit for post-Covid life
7 votes -
noyb issues more than 500 GDPR complaints in aim to end “cookie banner terror”
22 votes -
EU antitrust czar and Big Tech's fiercest opponent – Margrethe Vestager has become famous for putting up a fight against tech giants
6 votes -
Three years later: Did the GDPR actually work?
7 votes -
Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail; recommends outdated security algorithms
13 votes -
No cookie for you - Github removes all non-essential cookies
24 votes -
European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
10 votes -
EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
6 votes -
European Parliament votes for right to repair
19 votes -
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
6 votes -
[SOLVED] US websites no longer work, at all, in EU (?)
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just...
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just spins its wheels until it times out.
I went thru and systematically shut down all of my add-ons, no joy. Tried other browsers, does not work anywhere ... except, oddly, sometimes, in TOR. On a hunch, I fired up my VPN service and tried to connect thru a US-based VPN server ... and there it is.
I have now confirmed, multiple websites (I'm assuming these are all US-based -- have not checked) no longer resolve for me, here in Hungary. Can anyone, anywhere else in the EU, confirm this?
I'm guessing this is the US response to the latest GDPR ruling against data-sharing across the Pond, but I'm on a "news fast" and haven't been keeping up-to-date ... anyone care to fill me in -- the "in a nutshell" version?
Update: Definitely something local-ish, probably specific to my ISP. VPN thru Hungary works, non-VPN thru Hungary does not.
10 votes -
EU shoots for €10B ‘industrial cloud’ to rival US
7 votes -
Cambridge Analytica did not misuse data in EU referendum, says UK watchdog
5 votes -
US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals
17 votes -
EU digs in on digital tax plan, after US quits talks
5 votes -
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process
9 votes -
Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR
12 votes -
Apple Store's temperature checks may violate EU privacy rules, says German data protection office
5 votes -
Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies
10 votes -
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
14 votes -
Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules
21 votes -
Finland said it aims to teach 1% – or more than fifty million – of all Europeans basic skills in artificial intelligence through a free online course
11 votes -
Twitter announces that the plan to delete inactive accounts is now on hold, but was primarily aimed at EU accounts due to GDPR
14 votes -
EU passes “Right to repair” Law to make large appliances easier to repair starting from 2021
31 votes -
Security researcher successfully used false GDPR "right of access" requests to obtain extensive personal information about someone else
8 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
EU opens Amazon antitrust investigation
8 votes -
EU leaders: We won't follow Trump's Huawei ban
12 votes -
Ireland is blocking the world on data privacy - it's the designated lead regulator for many companies under EU privacy law, but it's in bed with the companies it should be regulating
9 votes -
The EU just destroyed the internet
3 votes -
Europe’s controversial overhaul of online copyright receives final approval
48 votes -
The language Wikipedias in German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak are "blacked out" for twenty-four hours to protest the EU Copyright Directive
14 votes -
Google fined $1.7 billion by EU for unfair advertising rules
14 votes -
Spotify are asking the European Commission to stop Apple's anti-competitive behaviour
9 votes -
Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on Facebook
17 votes -
The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has just been finalised
21 votes -
The CNIL has imposed a penalty of fifty million euros against Google for breaches of the GDPR
12 votes -
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
27 votes -
EU Copyright reform negotiations (Article 11 and Article 13) hit a brick wall in Council
10 votes -
The EU Copyright Directive: What redditors in Europe need to know
11 votes -
Film Theory: All your memes are dead
3 votes -
On YouTube and EU Article 13
If you've been following tech news somewhat recently, you've surely heard about Article 13- the one where the EU essentially requires all content hosts to have extremely strict copyright checking...
If you've been following tech news somewhat recently, you've surely heard about Article 13- the one where the EU essentially requires all content hosts to have extremely strict copyright checking tools and have automated takedown of any potentially copyrighted works.
That got put on the backburner for a little bit, but now it's back with a vote being held in early 2019.
YouTube, being one of, if not the largest content hosts in the world, is greatly affected by this motion. In fact, they have a whole website designed to encourage their creators to talk about A13 in their videos. The page very subtly hints at massive service changes that will happen in the EU if this actually ends up passing.
The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, has also written an op-ed for Financial times (linked to official YT blog since it's free there) about the issues facing YT if A13 passes.
I haven't heard anything from official sources, but I've heard on the rumor mill that YouTube will completely suspend creators in the EU, not allowing them to upload any content, and potentially even removing their existing content from YouTube.
What if this passes? YouTube is one of the biggest sources of free knowledge and entertainment we have today, and it's become engrained into the internet as it is today.
With all this, I simply ask, "what's next?"
9 votes -
Google responds to EU by adding a fee to Play Services
18 votes -
Amazon's use of merchant data under EU microscope
6 votes -
The European Union versus the Internet
12 votes -
Today, Europe lost the internet. Now, we fight back
10 votes -
Controversial Copyright Directive approved by EU Parliament
27 votes -
Now that the Copyright Directive has been voted through, I think it's relevant to share what type of MP's voted for this crap...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/ I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's...
Original here: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/8sizc8/danish_mep_jens_rohde_in_facebook_post_yesterday/
I posted this on reddit a couple of months ago as I felt (and still feel) like it's rather shocking how someone so ignorant can have any kind of power over something that they clearly know nothing about. Here's what Danish MEP Jens Rohde had to say about the public response to the directive in a Facebook post of his from ~2 months ago:
Always pleasant when the web communists hack and spam my PC in parliament. 50,000 e-mails just yesterday containing largely identical messages - in difference languages though.
This time because I tomorrow vote in favor of artist copyright is valid on the internet as well as everywhere else.
This is not about mass surveillance.
This is not about limiting freedom of speech unless you steal others' content for commercial use.
This is also not about the so-called link tax in article 11. Bloggers can calmly continue working.
This is simply about active commercial platforms which must pay to use people's content for commercial purposes. All passive platforms, marketplaces, wikis, clouds, closed networks are exempt from this proposition that I've helped create and vote for tomorrow.
Creators can themselves ask that their content is monitored, or they can upload it unprotected. That's their choice.
Technology has NOT been considered in the proposal. That will come later.
And let me repeat for the hundredth time: spam as well as hacking is especially counterproductive to me, if you want to promote your cause.
By the way, I will never subscribe to the communist pirate opinion that FREE internet is the same as internet for FREE - no matter how much you attack my PC.
13 votes