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The EU unboxes its plan for smart device security

September 15, 2022 Natasha Lomas 201 Viewscybersecurity, european union, Margrethe Vestager, product regulations, smart devices, smart home 5 min read

European Union lawmakers have proposed a new set of product rules to apply to smart devices that’s intended to compel makers of Internet-connected hardware — such as ‘smart’ washing machines or connected toys — to pay fulsome attention to device security. The proposed EU Cyber Resilience Act will introduce mandatory cybersecurity requirements for products that […]

Europe seals a deal on tighter rules for digital services

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Europe seals a deal on tighter rules for digital services

April 23, 2022 Natasha Lomas 225 ViewsChristel Schaldemose, Corporate Europe Observatory, data protection, Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, e-commerce, EC, Europe, european commission, european parliament, european union, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Hillary Clinton, Margrethe Vestager, online disinformation, online marketplaces, online platforms, recommender systems, russia, Spotify, targeted advertising, ukraine, United States, Ursula von der Leyen 14 min read

In the small hours local time, European Union lawmakers secured a provisional deal on a landmark update to rules for digital services operating in the region — grabbing political agreement after a final late night/early morning of compromise talks on the detail of what is a major retooling of the bloc’s existing ecommerce rulebook. The […]

Privacy Shield 2.0 is ‘high priority’ but ‘not easy’, warns EU’s Vestager

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Privacy Shield 2.0 is ‘high priority’ but ‘not easy’, warns EU’s Vestager

February 24, 2022 Natasha Lomas 238 Viewsartificial intelligence, cloud services, DATA Act, data portability, data protection, digital rights, digital sovereignty, EU-US Privacy Shield, European Court of Justice, European Data Protection Board, european union, Facebook, France, Google, Google-Analytics, Helen Dixon, human rights, ireland, Margrethe Vestager, Max Schrems, meta, privacy, safe harbor, Schrems II, social network, stripe, surveillance law, thierry-breton, United States 12 min read

Agreeing a new data transfer agreement with the US is a “high priority” for the EU, Margrethe Vestager, the bloc’s executive VP for digital strategy, said yesterday — but she also warned that a replacement for the defunct EU-US Privacy Shield (and Safe Harbor before that) is by no means a done deal, given the […]