Policy & Law

eco: Europe’s Digital Decade Must Move from Strategy to Action

The European Commission has defined ambitious goals for a digital Europe and, in recent months, has presented initial strategies for achieving these goals, including the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the European Green Deal. It is now time to have these strategies and goals converted into concrete political measures.

date 2021/09/16

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IoT

More Safety for IoT Devices: Test Specification for ETSI EN 303 645 Published

The safety test standard ETSI EN 303 645, which was already published in mid-2021, is intended to ensure more uniformity of safety standards for IoT devices, especially on the European market. The test standard is a recommendation to manufacturers and addresses all networked consumer IoT devices, especially in the Smart Home sector.

date 2021/09/14

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German Federal Government Cybersecurity Strategy

Last week, the German Federal Cabinet adopted a new cybersecurity strategy for the next five years. It aims to strengthen the protection and IT security of citizens, companies and critical infrastructures.

date 2021/09/14

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ECJ Hearing: eco and SpaceNet AG Seeking to Finally Overturn German Blanket Data Retention

With the support of the eco Association, SpaceNet AG wants to finally put an end to blanket data retention. With this in mind, in 2016 the company had already filed a lawsuit against the act at the Administrative Court in Cologne.

date 2021/09/13

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Digitalisation Enables Climate-Neutral Smart Cities

Digital technologies and services enable high CO2 savings in cities and metropolitan areas. In this way, they make a significant contribution to climate protection and are indispensable on the way to a carbon-neutral city, the Smart City study by eco and Arthur D. Little shows.

date 2021/09/09

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Fit for 55: For the realization of the EU 2030 climate targets

By 2030, it is planned that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions will have been reduced by 55 percent compared to 1990. In order to achieve this ambitious goal the EU Commission presented the “Fit for 55” package in July 2021.

date 2021/09/09

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Internet Policy Election Barometer: Voters Consider Jamaica Coalition to Have Greatest Digital Competence

The current eco Election Barometer sees FDP in the lead on digitalisation, The Greens and CDU/CSU on a par, ahead of SPD, and the Left Party lagging behind. The barometer shows that digital infrastructure, digital public administration and cybersecurity are viewed as the top issues for the next legislative term. eco calls for a Ministry of Digitalisation and focus on broadband roll-out and digital public administration.

date 2021/09/08

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On the Regulation on fair markets in the digital sector

In December 2020, the European Commission presented its proposal for a regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector – the Digital Markets Act. The DMA is a framework to designate large and market-relevant online platforms, to implement measures to limit the market power of gatekeepers.

date 2021/09/08

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“We Want to Help Create a More Sustainable Internet”

Digital solutions can help achieve sustainability goals, says Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert. In this interview, he names tools and gives examples of how companies can track and reduce their individual carbon footprint.

date 2021/09/07

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Raising Employee Awareness of IT security: Gamification and Nudging Bring More Success

The number of phishing attacks risescontinuously every year: Employees are particularly exposed to this security risk when working from home. We talk to Marcus Beyer, Security Awareness Officer at Swisscom Switzerland AG.

date 2021/09/06

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