The eco Complaints Office published its Annual Report on 3 April 2019 in the European Parliament and demonstrates that the principle of “take-down instead of blocking” works.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to ensure the competitiveness of German SMEs in the long term. eco – Association of the Internet Industry is a network partner of a consortium which has developed a project proposal on how to best use AI to do so. The project has now been recommended for funding based on the positive reviews of the judges of the innovation competition “Artificial Intelligence as a Driver for Economically-Relevant Ecosystems” of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).

Girls’ Day on 28.03.2019: Internet industry offers very good career chances for women

eco Association and the German National AI Association announce strategic partnership: High-performance infrastructures, promotion of skilled workers, and ethical use of AI in focus

For World Backup Day on 31.03.2019, the eco Association recommends companies and citizens develop a stronger awareness for backing up valuable data.

Today, the European Parliament cast its final vote on the European Copyright Directive. With its decision in favor of a European copyright law which includes a European ancillary copyright law and the introduction of upload filters, the European Parliament is flying in the face of a broad alliance comprised of civil society, academics, the digital industry, and Internet politicians – but also journalists, authors, and content creators.

Keynotes, security sessions, workshops, networking, and fun – the Internet Security Days (#ISD19) combine various attractive aspects in one event at an extraordinary location.

When it comes to data protection, Brexit also poses challenges for German companies. Whether there is a deal or a hard Brexit: In either case, the United Kingdom will become a third country under the GDPR once they leave the EU. This compels companies to check their cross-border processing of personal data as a matter of urgency.

In the run-up to the Europe-wide rallies planned for Saturday, 23 March 2019 – which are being staged in protest against the problem-ridden reform of EU copyright law – eco - Association of the Internet Industry once more reiterates its criticism of the planned European rules.

ID4me AISBL announces launch of their global and independent Single Sign-On (SSO) protocol.

The 64th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took place in Kobe from 11th to 14th of March 2019. ICANN64 was the Community Forum of 2019, with an attendance of 1,707 participants.

On the start of the 5G spectrum auction today, eco Board Member for Infrastructure & Networks Klaus Landefeld comments: “It is in principle a positive signal Germany as an industry location, and and a good day for Digital Germany, that the starting gun has been fired for future-oriented digital infrastructure and innovation.”

While email is still very much alive and kicking, spam and phishing mails continue to annoy recipients and damage the reputation of email as a medium. This is where self-regulation comes into play. How this can work will be a focal topic of the Certified Senders Alliance's email expert gathering at the CSA Summit in Cologne.

The European Parliament has adopted the EU Cybersecurity Act. Product manufacturers across Europe are now called upon to take appropriate measures to protect their systems against attacks.

In an article for INTUG, Don Holland from the Universal Acceptance Steering Group at ICANN describes the development of new gTLDs and Internationalized Domain Names, the implications for CIOs, and what to do next to ensure ‘universal acceptance’

Without IT security and trustworthiness, sustainable digitalization does not work! dotmagazine looks at technologies, applications, and legislation that promote the increased trustworthiness of digital systems.

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From 26 to 27 September 2019, the 9th Internet Security Days (ISD) will take place near Cologne in Germany. eco – Association of the Internet Industry and heise Events are issuing a Call for Papers for experts who would like to share their insights and experiences at this event. The closing date for submissions is 24 April.

Patrick Koetter, co-author of the eco Association the whitepaper “Legitimate Use of Crypto Mining” and Leader of the eco Competence Groups Email and Anti-Abuse, explains how website owners may be able to benefit from a new revenue stream, as an alternative to online advertising.

eco Association publishes IT Security Study 2019: 90 percent of companies perceive the threat situation as growing and are preparing themselves with emergency plans

Crypto mining could become established in future as an additional option for the financing of websites. To explain how, eco – Association of the Internet Industry has just published a whitepaper “Legitimate Use of Crypto Mining”.

Norbert Pohlmann, eco Board Member, on the RSA Conference and his expectations of one of the most important IT security events of the year.

Data protection and increasing attacks on the DNS infrastructure are two of the topics on the agenda of the next ICANN Meeting.

The who’s-who of IT security is meeting in San Francisco from 4 to 8 March: The eco Association of is on location with IT security experts

Blockchains have not yet developed a unified naming convention, and it’s time they did, argues Christa Taylor from Minds + Machines.

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Patrick Ben Koetter from the eco Association explores blockchain solutions for email and the need to bring the whole email ecosystem to the table.

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Data protection plays a major role in many blockchain-based project ideas, and presents issues which are not always easy to resolve, as Stephan Zimprich, Leader of the eco Competence Group Blockchain, explains.

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Klaus Landefeld on responsibility for IT security and how combatting crime has paradoxically become one of the greatest threats to security in cyber space.

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Particularly in times of data theft, the GDPR, and increasing digitalization, data protection is becoming more and more important for society at large. Yannick Schneeweiss from Hornetsecurity looks at how to increase the level of data protection of online services without making them too complicated for the user.

Katrin Ohlmer from DOTZON looks at how domain owners can monitor and prevent abuse of their domain name to protect themselves and their customers.

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For society to accept and use IT technologies and services, they must be secure and trustworthy. Prof. Norbert Pohlmann, Board Member for IT Security at eco Association, explores the balancing of state, community, and individual needs for cyber protection.