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Association of the Internet Industry: GDPR Must Overcome Bureaucratic Hurdles To Become a Gamechanger

eco formulates 5 points for the revision of the GDPR: Since May 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has regulated how public authorities, companies, associations, organizations or, for example, hospitals may handle citizens' data.  Now the first official evaluation of the much-discussed regulation is due.  eco – Association of the Internet still sees too many unresolved legal questions and practical problems that arise during implementation.

date 2020/05/05

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Corona Stop App: “Digital technologies can accelerate the fight against the pandemic”

The Association of the Internet Industry is in favor of the use of a tracking app in the COVID-19 crisis, if this application is designed in accordance with data protection regulations and if users can install the app on a voluntary basis.

date 2020/04/02

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eco Complaints Office Launches 2019 Annual Report Online

In an eco webinar yesterday, the Head of the eco Complaints Office Alexandra Koch-Skiba launched the Complaints Office's new Annual Report for 2019 together with Maximilian Schubert, President of EuroISPA. With this annual report, the eco Complaints Office looks back on a labor-intensive year: with 4,654 cases, the office recorded by far the highest number of justified complaints to date.

date 2020/03/31

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Corona Pandemic: Digital Infrastructure Particularly Important for the Economy and Society in Times of Crisis

Beyond, of course, the health consequences and the impact on public life, the worldwide spread of COVID-19 means that many people are now staying put at home. This also has an impact on Internet use: With 9.1 Terabit data per second, the Frankfurt Internet exchange DE-CIX set a new world record on 10 March. This shows that functioning digital infrastructures are indispensable for a functioning economic structure and social life and are needed more urgently than ever in Europe.

date 2020/03/13

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eco on European Industrial Strategy: “Europe Mustn’t Allow Itself to be Overtaken by China and Silicon Valley”

Today, the EU Commission is presenting its concepts for both an industrial and an SME strategy. The eco Association believes that an EU-wide strategy is urgently needed in the context of international competition, in order to maintain and strengthen the European economy in the long term.

date 2020/03/10

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Environmental Digital Agenda: Digital Industry as Part of the Solution for Achieving Climate Targets

Today, the German Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze presented Germany’s Environmental Digital Agenda. On this topic, Dr. Béla Waldhauser – Spokesperson of the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, which was founded two years ago under the umbrella of eco – had the following to say: “Digitalization and digital enterprises form part of the solution to achieving climate goals.”

date 2020/03/02

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eco Association on European AI and Data Strategies: AI & Data Policy As Two Sides of the Same Coin

The EU Commission has scheduled two groundbreaking digital policy papers to be launched on 19th February: the AI White Paper and the Data Strategy. In the opinion of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, this combination makes good sense: “A clear AI policy and a clear data policy are two sides of the same coin,” says eco Chair of the Board Oliver J. Süme.

date 2020/02/17

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eco Comments on EUCJ Proceedings on Blanket Data Retention: “All resuscitation attempts will fail”

Blanket data retention is disproportionate and incompatible with EU law. The Association of the Internet Industry welcomes the fact that the Advocate General is upholding the judgment of the European Court of Justice (EUCJ) against general and indiscriminate blanket data retention.

date 2020/01/15

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eco Review 2019: We Must Harness the Enormous Potential of the Digital Revolution

In order for successful digital transformation and adaptation of important key technologies such as AI to take place, the Internet industry needs political backing. In 2019, the eco Association actively participated in numerous digital policy debates at German national and European level on topics such as AI, 5G, copyright law, blanket data retention, and the importance of digital infrastructures.

date 2020/01/06

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New Ethics Compendium: eco Association Calls for Discursive Approach to Questions of Digital Ethics

New Ethics Compendium as Internet industry contribution to the debate on digital ethics .

date 2019/12/16

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eco on Planned Reform of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG): “Social networks confronted anew with great legal uncertainty”

eco Chair of the Board Oliver J. Süme assesses the current plans for an obligation to notify for the operators of social networks critically, seeing them as being insufficiently thought through.

date 2019/12/06

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eco on the Inauguration of the New EU Commission: “As a Digital Location, Europe Needs a Visionary Agenda”

Following on from Ursula von der Leyen's election by the European Parliament as the future President of the European Commission in July 2019, the new EU Commission will now also start its work on 1 December. The European Commission now has the key task of shaping a rigorous digital policy for the digital future of us all.

date 2019/12/02

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eco and ISOC to Work Together for a Secure and Globally Connected Internet

eco & the Internet Society sign Memorandum of Understanding at the IGF 2019.

date 2019/11/25

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IGF 2019: eco Calls for a Dialogue on the Opportunities of the Internet for SMEs

Germany is hosting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) for the very first time this year, which will take place from 25 to 29 November 2019 in the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin. The eco Association will be on location, participating in high-level panel sessions and with a booth at the IGF Village.

date 2019/11/01

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GAIA-X: eco Supports the Design of a Sovereign European Data Infrastructure

Digital sovereignty in the form of high-performance and secure digital infrastructures is a key success factor and decisive for the future viability of Germany as a business location. This is the opinion of the overwhelming majority (80 percent) of decision-makers in German companies, according to the results of a current representative survey commissioned by eco.

date 2019/10/29

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