Toggle navigation eco Press Releases Press Releases Press Center Press Distribution List Press DownloadsPress TextPhotographsLogosStudiesAnnual Reports Law & Regulation EU AI Package Paves the Way for Innovation and Billions in Economic Growth The European Commission today presented its proposal on the regulation of AI technologies. eco – Association of the Internet Industry welcomes the fact that Brussels is refraining from a blanket overregulation of artificial intelligence and is instead focusing on AI regulation for high-risk applications. date 2021/04/21 press © Eva Almqvist | istockphoto.com women.in.tech eco Survey on Occasion of Girls’ Day: IT Industry Needs Female Reinforcement The IT industry needs female reinforcement. This is the opinion of over 60 percent of German citizens, according to the results of a survey by eco – Association of the Internet Industry, conducted in cooperation with the market and opinion research institute Civey. date 2021/04/20 press GAIA-X eco at Hannover Trade Fair on GAIA-X As the Hannover Trade Fair 2021 has demonstrated, Internet-based solutions are gaining relevance and momentum in German industry. This means that increasing swathes of data are being generated by European companies, organisations and administrations. In the coming years, Gaia-X will help to maintain complete control over this data on a long-term basis and enable independent decisions to be made on who has access to it. date 2021/04/15 press Law & Regulation Majority of Germans Seeking Greater Use of Digital Tools to Combat the Covid-19 Pandemic For more than a year now, digital technologies and applications have been supporting the economy and society in times of the Corona crisis and have gained great acceptance among the population, according to the results of a representative survey commissioned by eco - Association of the Internet Industry, undertaken in April by the marketing and opinion research institute Civey. date 2021/04/14 press Law & Regulation Together for the Good of the Internet: eco Complaints Office... For 25 years, the Complaints Office of eco – Association of the Internet Industry has been successfully combatting illegal content on the Internet. The 2020 report presented online today shows that the independent hotline is making a significant contribution to the take-down and criminal investigation of illegal content: With a total of 5,523 cases, the number of justified complaints displaying a clear violation of the law was higher in 2020 than ever before. date 2021/04/13 press © gorodenkoff Datacenter Data centres as Gamechangers for Urban Energy Supply: City of Frankfurt am Main Could Cover Most of its Heating Needs by 2030 with Waste Heat With advancing digitalisation, the global demand for computing power is increasing, and with it the energy requirements for data centres. But the strong data centre infrastructure also means an opportunity for future energy concepts, especially in conurbations like Frankfurt am Main. date 2021/04/09 press Domains DNS over HTTPS: Spanish Version of eco Discussion Paper... DoH improves the privacy and security of users eco Discussion Paper on DoH explains complexities and provides recommendations Paper – first published in September 2020 – now available in Spanish Throughout the history of the Internet, traditional DNS traffic – for example, when a user types a website name... date 2021/04/08 press Networks Study: 100 Top Decision-Makers Attest to Cologne’s Digital Resilience in the Area of Mobile Working A study published this month by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology shows that digital resilience in Cologne is high, but varies greatly across sectors. Supply chains, for example, are described by 82 percent of decision-makers as being efficient even in the pandemic. date 2021/03/29 press Law & Regulation Identification Obligation for Messengers: eco Warns of Backdoors in the Legislative Process In the amendment of the German Telecommunications Act (TKG), the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) is calling for last-minute modifications, with these set to have far-reaching consequences for all Internet users. In eco’s view, such a regulation would lead to a further undermining of the trustworthiness and integrity of communication on the Internet. date 2021/03/22 press Security Attacks on mail servers: eco gives 5 tips for prevention Against the backdrop of the attacks against email servers that have recently been reported, eco – Association of the Internet Industry recommends that companies put their own emergency planning and patch management to the test. According to the eco IT Security Study 2021, published in English today, 88 percent of the companies surveyed by eco describe patch management as a very important topic in their security strategy. date 2021/03/08 press women.in.tech eco Survey on Equal Opportunities in the Workplace: Men give better ratings than women “As a digital association, the promotion of women and diversity is a key issue for eco in order to ensure the future viability of Germany as a digital location,” says Oliver Süme, Chair of the eco Association. date 2021/03/05 press Security ID Card for the Internet? Digital Identity is Becoming More Likely With the call for unique and secure digital identities getting louder, Ekkehart Gerlach, Managing Director of the German ICT + Media Academy, predicts an increasing use of an ID card for the Internet, and reports on its many potential benefits. date 2021/03/01 press Security eco on the IT Security Act 2.0 “Politicians must pull the ripcord in order not to gamble away trust in digital communication,” says eco’s Vice-Chair Klaus Landefeld. date 2021/02/26 press Law & Regulation eco Association on the German BND Act: State Hacking Would Endanger IT Security The current draft of the BND Act by the German Federal Chancellery is set to give the German Federal Intelligence Service permission to access inventory, traffic and content data without the knowledge of the operator in question. The eco Association warns of the consequences of such a regulation for general IT security and judges the draft as being unconstitutional. date 2021/02/22 press Law & Regulation Inventory Data Disclosure: eco Association Warns Against Uncontrolled Data and Password Disclosure The eco Association criticises procedure and warns against hasty decision in the Bundesrat – Password disclosure means profound invasion of privacy date 2021/02/11 press Law & Regulation eco Calls for Harmonised Approach Between German TTDSG, ePrivacy Regulation and GDPR The new German Telecommunications & Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG) has now been adopted by the Federal Cabinet. In the international field, a proposal for the ePrivacy Regulation made under the Portuguese EU Council Presidency was presented to the EU’s deputy ambassadors on the same day. The eco Association calls for an approach which guarantees coherence and harmonisation between the TTDSG and the planned ePrivacy Regulation date 2021/02/11 press Law & Regulation Criminal Online Trade: “Current draft law places every platform on the Internet under general suspicion” In future, the German federal government wants to take tougher action against operators of criminal trading platforms on the Internet. To this end, the cabinet will discuss a corresponding draft of the Federal Ministry of Justice, which is to amend the German Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure accordingly. date 2021/02/10 press Law & Regulation eco on EU Copyright Reform “The new regulations on ancillary copyright for press publishers included in the latest draft law, in combination with the planned upload filters, will lead to a deep incision into freedom of expression and stunt the development of new and innovative platforms throughout the whole of Europe,” says eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme. date 2021/02/03 press Law & Regulation eco Association on German Data Strategy Commenting on the German federal government’s Data Strategy presented today, eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme says: “Standardised and legally secure handling of data is essential for all data-based business models, which is why the strategy now presented is long overdue and essentially a positive step forward for the companies concerned.” date 2021/01/27 press GAIA-X GAIA-X Federation Services: eco Takes Over Project Management eco – Association of the Internet Industry has taken on the specification of the GAIA-X Federation Services and has set up a Project Management Office (PMO) and defined five work packages. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is funding the project with around 13.5 million Euro. date 2021/01/26 press Datacenter eco Alliance Signs Up to Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact One year after the adoption of the EU Green Deal, leading cloud infrastructure providers and data centre operators in Europe have signed up to a joint Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact – with this including the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, founded under the umbrella of the eco Association. date 2021/01/21 press Law & Regulation eco Association: “Amendment of the German GWB Act will harm Germany as a digital location” In the planned amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), the eco Association still sees clear grounds for criticism. In its third round, the GWB amendment is expected to be passed by the Bundestag next Thursday. date 2021/01/14 press Law & Regulation eco Association Cautions Lawmakers Against a Rushed-Through Anti-Hate Law In light of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the German federal government plans to have the “repaired” version of the law on combating right-wing extremism and hate crime on the Internet confirmed by the Bundestag in an expedited procedure before the end of January. The eco Association views the events in Washington with the utmost gravity, but takes a critical stance on the expedited procedure for a law that has been deemed questionable under constitutional law. date 2021/01/11 press Law & Regulation Network Enforcement Act: eco Association Cautions Against Further Bureaucratic Constraints on Social Networks eco warns against unilaterally defining further requirements for social network operators at the national level until the interplay between the DSA and the German Network Enforcement Act has been conclusively regulated. date 2021/01/06 press Law & Regulation Digital Policy Annual Outlook 2021: Sustainable Digitalisation Can Only Succeed With Sustainable Digital Policy The year 2021 offers an opportunity for a strategic reorientation of German and European digital policy. Oliver Süme, Chair of the eco Association, calls for a more sustainable digital policy that sees digitalisation as part of the solution to many global challenges and uses existing innovation potential more consistently than before. date 2021/01/06 press Datacenter eco Alliance: “Digitalisation is THE basic condition for a CO2-neutral Europe” Conclusions for sustainable digitalisation were adopted at last week’s meeting of the EU Environment Council. Among other things, these stipulate that data centres should become climate-neutral by 2030. date 2020/12/18 press Quelle: TRUMPF Group IoT Service-Meister Presents Platform Architecture The Service-Meister Consortium announces it will unveil its 2020-developed platform architecture at the end of the year. Service-Meister is developing innovations using AI to improve the service processes of SMEs. date 2020/12/17 press Law & Regulation eco Association: New IT Act of the German Federal Government Undermines Trustworthiness of Digital Communication With the drafts for an IT Security Act 2.0, the new Telecommunications Act, and the BND Act, all of which were hastily approved by the German Federal Cabinet yesterday, the German federal government is fundamentally undermining general IT security and damaging the trustworthiness of digital communication in Germany. date 2020/12/17 press Law & Regulation eco Association: European proposals for regulating digital services and markets retain important basic principles, but require further concretisation The plans of the EU Commission presented yesterday for the regulation of digital services and digital markets are, in the view of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, ambitious proposals that appropriately reflect the complexity of the topic and of the Digital Market. date 2020/12/16 press Law & Regulation eco on the German Telecommunications Act: “Federal Government Jeopardising 5G Roll-out” The German Telecommunications Act is to be fundamentally reformed within this legislative term and an updated version of a joint draft act has just been published. eco denounces the overall chaotic legislative process which is occurring at the expense of content-related diligence and appropriate consultation with associations. In particular, eco criticises the fact that the amended act will create a new class of protection that will essentially place service providers under an increased level of risk. date 2020/12/15 press
Law & Regulation EU AI Package Paves the Way for Innovation and Billions in Economic Growth The European Commission today presented its proposal on the regulation of AI technologies. eco – Association of the Internet Industry welcomes the fact that Brussels is refraining from a blanket overregulation of artificial intelligence and is instead focusing on AI regulation for high-risk applications. date 2021/04/21 press
© Eva Almqvist | istockphoto.com women.in.tech eco Survey on Occasion of Girls’ Day: IT Industry Needs Female Reinforcement The IT industry needs female reinforcement. This is the opinion of over 60 percent of German citizens, according to the results of a survey by eco – Association of the Internet Industry, conducted in cooperation with the market and opinion research institute Civey. date 2021/04/20 press
GAIA-X eco at Hannover Trade Fair on GAIA-X As the Hannover Trade Fair 2021 has demonstrated, Internet-based solutions are gaining relevance and momentum in German industry. This means that increasing swathes of data are being generated by European companies, organisations and administrations. In the coming years, Gaia-X will help to maintain complete control over this data on a long-term basis and enable independent decisions to be made on who has access to it. date 2021/04/15 press
Law & Regulation Majority of Germans Seeking Greater Use of Digital Tools to Combat the Covid-19 Pandemic For more than a year now, digital technologies and applications have been supporting the economy and society in times of the Corona crisis and have gained great acceptance among the population, according to the results of a representative survey commissioned by eco - Association of the Internet Industry, undertaken in April by the marketing and opinion research institute Civey. date 2021/04/14 press
Law & Regulation Together for the Good of the Internet: eco Complaints Office... For 25 years, the Complaints Office of eco – Association of the Internet Industry has been successfully combatting illegal content on the Internet. The 2020 report presented online today shows that the independent hotline is making a significant contribution to the take-down and criminal investigation of illegal content: With a total of 5,523 cases, the number of justified complaints displaying a clear violation of the law was higher in 2020 than ever before. date 2021/04/13 press
© gorodenkoff Datacenter Data centres as Gamechangers for Urban Energy Supply: City of Frankfurt am Main Could Cover Most of its Heating Needs by 2030 with Waste Heat With advancing digitalisation, the global demand for computing power is increasing, and with it the energy requirements for data centres. But the strong data centre infrastructure also means an opportunity for future energy concepts, especially in conurbations like Frankfurt am Main. date 2021/04/09 press
Domains DNS over HTTPS: Spanish Version of eco Discussion Paper... DoH improves the privacy and security of users eco Discussion Paper on DoH explains complexities and provides recommendations Paper – first published in September 2020 – now available in Spanish Throughout the history of the Internet, traditional DNS traffic – for example, when a user types a website name... date 2021/04/08 press
Networks Study: 100 Top Decision-Makers Attest to Cologne’s Digital Resilience in the Area of Mobile Working A study published this month by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology shows that digital resilience in Cologne is high, but varies greatly across sectors. Supply chains, for example, are described by 82 percent of decision-makers as being efficient even in the pandemic. date 2021/03/29 press
Law & Regulation Identification Obligation for Messengers: eco Warns of Backdoors in the Legislative Process In the amendment of the German Telecommunications Act (TKG), the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) is calling for last-minute modifications, with these set to have far-reaching consequences for all Internet users. In eco’s view, such a regulation would lead to a further undermining of the trustworthiness and integrity of communication on the Internet. date 2021/03/22 press
Security Attacks on mail servers: eco gives 5 tips for prevention Against the backdrop of the attacks against email servers that have recently been reported, eco – Association of the Internet Industry recommends that companies put their own emergency planning and patch management to the test. According to the eco IT Security Study 2021, published in English today, 88 percent of the companies surveyed by eco describe patch management as a very important topic in their security strategy. date 2021/03/08 press
women.in.tech eco Survey on Equal Opportunities in the Workplace: Men give better ratings than women “As a digital association, the promotion of women and diversity is a key issue for eco in order to ensure the future viability of Germany as a digital location,” says Oliver Süme, Chair of the eco Association. date 2021/03/05 press
Security ID Card for the Internet? Digital Identity is Becoming More Likely With the call for unique and secure digital identities getting louder, Ekkehart Gerlach, Managing Director of the German ICT + Media Academy, predicts an increasing use of an ID card for the Internet, and reports on its many potential benefits. date 2021/03/01 press
Security eco on the IT Security Act 2.0 “Politicians must pull the ripcord in order not to gamble away trust in digital communication,” says eco’s Vice-Chair Klaus Landefeld. date 2021/02/26 press
Law & Regulation eco Association on the German BND Act: State Hacking Would Endanger IT Security The current draft of the BND Act by the German Federal Chancellery is set to give the German Federal Intelligence Service permission to access inventory, traffic and content data without the knowledge of the operator in question. The eco Association warns of the consequences of such a regulation for general IT security and judges the draft as being unconstitutional. date 2021/02/22 press
Law & Regulation Inventory Data Disclosure: eco Association Warns Against Uncontrolled Data and Password Disclosure The eco Association criticises procedure and warns against hasty decision in the Bundesrat – Password disclosure means profound invasion of privacy date 2021/02/11 press
Law & Regulation eco Calls for Harmonised Approach Between German TTDSG, ePrivacy Regulation and GDPR The new German Telecommunications & Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG) has now been adopted by the Federal Cabinet. In the international field, a proposal for the ePrivacy Regulation made under the Portuguese EU Council Presidency was presented to the EU’s deputy ambassadors on the same day. The eco Association calls for an approach which guarantees coherence and harmonisation between the TTDSG and the planned ePrivacy Regulation date 2021/02/11 press
Law & Regulation Criminal Online Trade: “Current draft law places every platform on the Internet under general suspicion” In future, the German federal government wants to take tougher action against operators of criminal trading platforms on the Internet. To this end, the cabinet will discuss a corresponding draft of the Federal Ministry of Justice, which is to amend the German Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure accordingly. date 2021/02/10 press
Law & Regulation eco on EU Copyright Reform “The new regulations on ancillary copyright for press publishers included in the latest draft law, in combination with the planned upload filters, will lead to a deep incision into freedom of expression and stunt the development of new and innovative platforms throughout the whole of Europe,” says eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme. date 2021/02/03 press
Law & Regulation eco Association on German Data Strategy Commenting on the German federal government’s Data Strategy presented today, eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme says: “Standardised and legally secure handling of data is essential for all data-based business models, which is why the strategy now presented is long overdue and essentially a positive step forward for the companies concerned.” date 2021/01/27 press
GAIA-X GAIA-X Federation Services: eco Takes Over Project Management eco – Association of the Internet Industry has taken on the specification of the GAIA-X Federation Services and has set up a Project Management Office (PMO) and defined five work packages. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is funding the project with around 13.5 million Euro. date 2021/01/26 press
Datacenter eco Alliance Signs Up to Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact One year after the adoption of the EU Green Deal, leading cloud infrastructure providers and data centre operators in Europe have signed up to a joint Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact – with this including the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, founded under the umbrella of the eco Association. date 2021/01/21 press
Law & Regulation eco Association: “Amendment of the German GWB Act will harm Germany as a digital location” In the planned amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB), the eco Association still sees clear grounds for criticism. In its third round, the GWB amendment is expected to be passed by the Bundestag next Thursday. date 2021/01/14 press
Law & Regulation eco Association Cautions Lawmakers Against a Rushed-Through Anti-Hate Law In light of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, the German federal government plans to have the “repaired” version of the law on combating right-wing extremism and hate crime on the Internet confirmed by the Bundestag in an expedited procedure before the end of January. The eco Association views the events in Washington with the utmost gravity, but takes a critical stance on the expedited procedure for a law that has been deemed questionable under constitutional law. date 2021/01/11 press
Law & Regulation Network Enforcement Act: eco Association Cautions Against Further Bureaucratic Constraints on Social Networks eco warns against unilaterally defining further requirements for social network operators at the national level until the interplay between the DSA and the German Network Enforcement Act has been conclusively regulated. date 2021/01/06 press
Law & Regulation Digital Policy Annual Outlook 2021: Sustainable Digitalisation Can Only Succeed With Sustainable Digital Policy The year 2021 offers an opportunity for a strategic reorientation of German and European digital policy. Oliver Süme, Chair of the eco Association, calls for a more sustainable digital policy that sees digitalisation as part of the solution to many global challenges and uses existing innovation potential more consistently than before. date 2021/01/06 press
Datacenter eco Alliance: “Digitalisation is THE basic condition for a CO2-neutral Europe” Conclusions for sustainable digitalisation were adopted at last week’s meeting of the EU Environment Council. Among other things, these stipulate that data centres should become climate-neutral by 2030. date 2020/12/18 press
Quelle: TRUMPF Group IoT Service-Meister Presents Platform Architecture The Service-Meister Consortium announces it will unveil its 2020-developed platform architecture at the end of the year. Service-Meister is developing innovations using AI to improve the service processes of SMEs. date 2020/12/17 press
Law & Regulation eco Association: New IT Act of the German Federal Government Undermines Trustworthiness of Digital Communication With the drafts for an IT Security Act 2.0, the new Telecommunications Act, and the BND Act, all of which were hastily approved by the German Federal Cabinet yesterday, the German federal government is fundamentally undermining general IT security and damaging the trustworthiness of digital communication in Germany. date 2020/12/17 press
Law & Regulation eco Association: European proposals for regulating digital services and markets retain important basic principles, but require further concretisation The plans of the EU Commission presented yesterday for the regulation of digital services and digital markets are, in the view of eco – Association of the Internet Industry, ambitious proposals that appropriately reflect the complexity of the topic and of the Digital Market. date 2020/12/16 press
Law & Regulation eco on the German Telecommunications Act: “Federal Government Jeopardising 5G Roll-out” The German Telecommunications Act is to be fundamentally reformed within this legislative term and an updated version of a joint draft act has just been published. eco denounces the overall chaotic legislative process which is occurring at the expense of content-related diligence and appropriate consultation with associations. In particular, eco criticises the fact that the amended act will create a new class of protection that will essentially place service providers under an increased level of risk. date 2020/12/15 press
