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Netherlands Becomes First EU Nations To Pass Net Neutrality Law

Netherlands on May 8, 2012 adopted the crucial and important legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet in the country. With the adoption of...

ACTA ‘Highly Intrusive’ To Individuals, Says European Data Protection Supervisor

Today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted Opinion on the proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion of the long known controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). It underlines that many of the measures to strengthen IP enforcement online could involve the large scale monitoring of users’ behaviour and of their electronic...

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Sony’s Acquisition Of EMI Publishing To Be Approved By EU Regulators

Sony Music acquisition of EMI Publishing which gives Sony the publishing rights to the output of hundreds of songwriters is set to be approving by the...

Google Responds Back Over EU Privacy Policy Questions

European Union France-led investigation stated that Google’s new privacy policy may violates the European Law, confirming over on this EU justice Commissioner...

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Proposed EU Law Makes IT Systems Cyber Attacks A Criminal Offense

European Union legislators have approved a draft law that would make cyber attacks on IT systems a criminal offense. The proposed law is an update to...

EU Opens Two Antitrust Investigation Against Motorola Over Apple And Microsoft Complaints

The European Commission announced today that it has opened two formal antitrust investigations against Motorola Mobility Inc. The Commission will assess whether Motorola has abusively, and in contravention of commitments it gave to standard setting organisations, used certain of its standard essential patents to distort competition in the Internal Market in breach of...

Apple Over The Added EU Pressure, Clarifies Two-Year Statutory Warrant Coverage

Apple been forced to change its warranty policy for all of their products in Europe after the Italian court ruled against the company. The company has...

EU New Plans To Bring Data Roaming Costs Lowers At €0.20 ($0.27) A Megabyte

The new deal has been agreed by European MEPs and the EU council presidency (currently occupied by Denmark) to set into motion a plan to cap roaming data charges in EU member states but it still needs approval from the wider EU Parliament in May before going into effect from the 1st of July this year. The proposal states that the cap would be lowered every year until 2014,...

Apple ‘Misleading’ AppleCare Warranties Under Fire From EU Consumer Groups

The Cupertino-based Apple has been served with a formal notice by The European Consumers’ Organization concerning “unfair business-to-consumer commercial...

EU-U.S. Joint Statement On Data Protection

On the note of taking care of privacy issues and laws, the European Union and the United States announced a new commitment to collaboration on privacy issues and laws at the High Level Conference. The High Level Conference on Privacy and Protection of Personal Data, held simultaneously in Washington, DC and Brussels with the participation of Vice-President Viviane Reding...