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EU Agreement On Communications Snooping 'unlikely'
News Under current EU law, personal data can only be retained for 30 days -- the current legal period deemed acceptable for billing purposes. The EU Data Protection Working Party has sent a letter to the presidents of the European Parliament, EC and the...
[June 27, 2001, 13:19]
EU Body Slams Biometric ID Cards
Blog In a great article on an EU body's report on biometric ID Cards, "Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit", Reg veteran John Lettice concludes: Could we all be going to wake up in ten years time and conclude biometric ID was a...
[November 10, 2006, 16:41]
EU Members Ignore Spam Directive
News The EU's anti-spam directive, which was passed in July 2003, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published by the Institute of Information Law (IvIR) at the InfoSecurity...
[April 27, 2004, 15:00]
EU Directive 'could Spark Patent War'
Talkback >> For example, if a patented e-commerce technology is enforceable in the US but not the EU, US users could be breaking the law by accessing an EU Web site that used the technology, according to Gartner.
[October 3, 2003, 17:59]
EU Anti-piracy Directive Heads For Final Vote
News Intellectual property: Enforcing the rights, measures and procedures", known as the Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive, is primarily aimed at cracking down on organised piracy and counterfeiting in the EU, a growing problem.
[February 26, 2004, 11:05]
News Burst: EU Telecoms Chief To Be Hauled Into Court
News The scandal is the latest in a series involving EU officials and is a serious blow to the EU's efforts to repair the tarnished image of its executive. Last week Bangemann was forced to take a leave of absence from his duties.
[July 12, 1999, 11:27]
EU Site Pushes Open-source Education
News The site adds to the EU's substantial moves to support open source, which is seen by many EU member states as a way of cutting public-sector costs, stimulating the local software industry and fostering interoperability free of proprietary...
[December 22, 2003, 11:30]
EU Telecoms Gets Regulatory Shake-up
News The new framework will also see a greater push towards radio spectrum harmonisation across the EU. Colt Telecom issued a statement on Tuesday in which it called the reform "long overdue, particularly if EU-based businesses are to continue to...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
News Burst: EU Accused Of Music Copyright Bias
News On Tuesday one member accused the EU of indirectly funding the music industry's controversial Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). According to media management consultant David Philipson, EU money given to the International Federation of the...
[September 28, 1999, 12:50]
News Burst: EU Report Finds Junk Mail Costs £6bn
News The report forms part of an ongoing European Union (EU) investigation into ways to combat the scourge of spam. The EU is aiming to strike a balance between individuals' right to privacy and Internet advertising interests and believes that a...
[February 6, 2001, 10:17]
EU And Open Source
Talkback So now we really do know where the EU stands on Open Source and freedom of choose. Enough said as it's all been said before.
[January 8, 2007, 12:22]
EU Urged To Rethink E-government
News The Dutch presidency of the EU wants to rethink Europe's e-government agenda encouraging member states to adopt "more complex" applications and transactional systems, according to its latest IT strategy report.
[September 22, 2004, 11:20]
EU Parliament Forgives Council For Adopting Patent Directive
Talkback The EU Parliament has more important things to do then wasting time on forgiving the EU Council. Because how things are done in the EU doesn't seem to matter any way. Specificly to boot out Software Patents completely in whatever way they please.
[April 2, 2005, 0:55]
EU Clashes With Microsoft Over Vista Features
Talkback So the EU is basically telling Microsoft that they must continue to make insecure software so as to not stifle the security market! Does the EU really thibk it's in our best interests to buy an insecure O/S and then have to buy as an added expense...
[September 13, 2006, 23:14]
MobFinance (EU Edition)
Downloads With Mobfinance EU Edition, an european investor can monitor his entire portfolios by retrieving stock quotes and live charts showing intraday, weekly and 12 month graphs from 14 european markets (including Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Dublin...
[May 23, 2007, 22:31]
US Report: EU Privacy Plan Impact On US Unclear
News E-commerce won't grind to a halt because of it, but the strict data privacy protection plan implemented by the European Union (EU) on Sunday is likely to cause some trepidation in US companies -- and the fallout could eventually be significant.
[October 27, 1998, 9:44]
News Burst: EU Accolade For Welsh High-tech Plan
News The WDA's scheme, together with a regional project in the Netherlands, was listed as the most successful in the EU. Some 50 separate projects involving 1000 organisations, pioneered under the Welsh Development Agency's (WDA) regional technology...
[October 21, 1998, 16:07]
EU-wide Patents 'move Closer'
Talkback With EU wide (software) patent legislation it'll be a matter of time before well sponsored lobbiest and laywers will start exploiting loopholes in the weakest links of the chain they can find. And once that's done the whole EU can "benefit" from it.
[May 9, 2006, 22:22]
EU Backs ISPs Over File-sharing
News The highest court in the EU ruled on Tuesday that, in civil cases, internet service providers should not have to disclose the names of those sharing files over their networks. The Spanish courts then went to the ECJ to ask whether EU law requires...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
EU Passports Get Biometric Data
News New EU passports will be embedded with a radio frequency ID chip that contains biometric data, after standards bodies put the technology on a fast-track to deployment. The move comes after the US introduced strict new laws that demand biometric...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
