EU telecom ministers aim to end bandwidth favoritism
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU ministers urged the European Commission and regulators to check on telecom operators who prioritize bandwidth for certain services, giving leverage to complaints about mobile...
View ArticleBreach of new EU data rules to carry high fines
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission unveiled new online data privacy rules on Wednesday, putting more responsibility on companies to protect users' information, and said those who breach the...
View ArticleEU regulators want Google to halt new privacy policy
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of European regulators has written to Google Inc calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals...
View ArticleEU seeks legal opinion on global copyright
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it would refer a disputed global agreement to tackle online piracy to the bloc's highest court to check whether it complies with EU...
View ArticleSpain refers Google privacy complaints to EU's top court
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Spain's highest court wants the top court in Europe to decide if requests by Spanish citizens to have data deleted from Google's search engine are lawful, in a case that could put...
View ArticleGreece should look to Internet for recovery, says study
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Greek government should take a leaf out of South Korea's book and invest in better networks and getting more people online, a study which measures how the Web raises GDP levels...
View ArticleWeb privacy rules turn poachers into gamekeepers
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When you 'like' something on Facebook or read an online newspaper, perhaps a dozen or more companies are squirreling away data on your tastes, your habits, whether you're male or...
View ArticleGoogle defends privacy policy to European watchdog
LONDON (Reuters) - Web search giant Google defended the lawfulness of its new privacy policy and the measures it had taken to educate users about it, in a letter sent on Thursday to French data...
View ArticleHow Internet detectives, and others, find out where you live
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An explosion of people checking into social networks is being exploited by mobile application makers and private detectives, who say they can use people's online chatter and photos...
View ArticleGoogle to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French...
View ArticleGoogle to meet French regulator on privacy policy
PARIS (Reuters) - Google will meet with France's data protection watchdog next week to answer questions about its new user privacy policy as part of a Europe-wide investigation being led by the French...
View ArticleEU to take hard line on German resistance to data storage
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU executive is planning to refer Germany to the European Union's highest court over its failure to introduce a law obliging phone and internet companies to store records for...
View ArticleEU Commission wants Germany fined over data storage
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is asking the top EU court to fine Germany for failing to introduce a law obliging phone and internet firms to store records for at least six months.
View ArticleEU Commission asks telcos to share radio waves
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is pushing telecoms companies to share the radio frequencies they use for mobile and broadband services as space runs out for rapidly increasing Web use.
View ArticleEU set to fight Internet tax and "spying" at global summit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union member states are preparing to fight as a bloc alongside the United States to prevent a move by Russia and countries in Africa to impose a levy on internet traffic...
View ArticleGoogle risks huge fine under new EU data rules: top official
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google's latest privacy policy could land it with a fine of upto $1 billion under a new law allowing Europe-wide challenges to U. S. -based Internet giants, Europe's top justice...
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