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.

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.

85 percent of employees in Germany are in favor of virtual working in light of the current crisis situation, as a representative survey of some 2,500 employees reveals. Experts from the eco Association provide concrete tips on how companies can remain up and running, in spite of the coronavirus outbreak.

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.