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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.

eco on LOCATION Alexandra Koch-Skiba, Head of eco Complaints Office & Attorney-at-law.

Transparency creates trust. For this reason, we have been reporting transparently for many years now on the working approach and successes of the eco Complaints Office. As such, we have also published an independent Annual Report of the eco Compaints Office for 2018. In addition to the important statistics, we also want to report on our working approach and partnerships as well as our involvement in committees and initiatives. In order to effectively  combat illegal Internet content, it is vital to be part of a national and international network that consists of many relevant players.

Introducing a European copyright law that ignores the entire potential of the digital economy and impedes the digitalization of society and the development of new innovative business models throughout Europe – simply to protect traditional industries and outdated business models – is in no way appropriate to the realization of the European digital single market.

Today's decision by the British Parliament has once again delayed Britain's withdrawal agreement with the EU. The eco Association also sees an opportunity here – namely, that legislators on both sides of the English Channel have gained more time to come up with relevant deals in the areas of data flow, business processes, and the regulation of contracts. Regulation of these areas is of central importance to the digital industry’s ability to continue to work effectively.

In the course of the most recent data scandal, the German Federal Minister for Justice Katarina Barley has called for stricter rules for the operators of Internet platforms. eco Association Chair Oliver Süme comments.

Encryption is an effective means to prevent this kind of attack and data theft. Therefore, the German federal government should more strongly support and drive forward the development and dissemination of user-friendly encryption technologies.

"The plans of the EU Commission for a digital tax explicitly discriminate against the digital industry. We need a coherent tax system that applies the same fair and comprehensible rules to all market participants."

For the “European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse”, the German Internet complaints offices inform about the spread of images of sexualized violence in the Internet, & about the cooperation of hotlines at national and international levels.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a decisive future-oriented technology and an important market for Germany as a digital location. In the view of the eco Association, in order to occupy this important technological field and turn AI into a core competency of German industry, a holistic AI strategy is needed which not only depends on targeted research and development but also high-performance digital infrastructures, and supports the societal acceptance of AI technologies.

Event Report from Emailing 2020 Conference in Prague - deliverability and the benefits of CSA Certification.