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German Federal Government publishes Deletion Successes of Online Child Sexual Abuse Material 2019

The German federal government published the evaluation report on the deletion of child sexual abuse material*, CSAM for short, on the Internet for the year 2019 on 16 September 2020.

date 2020/09/22

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Broadband Internet: Development of the technologies up until 2030 in Germany

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Start Into a Digital Decade of Superlatives: New eco Study Expects Revenue Growth of 75 Percent for the Internet Industry in Germany by 2025

The Internet industry will be one of the most dynamic industries in Germany in the coming years, as a new joint study by the eco Association and the management consultancy Arthur D. Little shows. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, during which individual large segments of the Internet industry suffered slumps, an increase in revenue of almost 75 percent to approximately 253 billion Euro is expected by 2025.

date 2020/09/22

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Proposal for a Regulation on Preventing the Dissemination...

The scope of the Regulation should be restricted to companies relevant for the Regulation’s objective. These are platforms that facilitate dissemination of content to the public at the direct request of the content provider and have the ability to remove discrete pieces of content.

date 2020/09/21

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date 2020/09/21

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Legal Insights Vol. 3 - Opt-Out Notices and Imprint

  Legal Insights Vol. 3 - Opt-Out Notices and Imprint The Small Print – The Importance of Opt-out Notices and Imprints in Marketing Emails The third in the series of webinars and workshops offered as part of the 2020 CSA Digital Email Summit took place online on 14 September 2020. The series of workshop on...

date 2020/09/18

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Legal Expert Opinions on German Hate Speech Law Confirm Internet Industry Concerns

eco sees a clear confirmation of its own assessment and critical analysis of the draft German law on combating right-wing extremism and hate crime and the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG).

date 2020/09/17

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Nominees 2020

These concepts and tools for data centers and infrastructures are paving the way far into the future: The nominated companies are helping to operate digital Internet infrastructures and data centers with ever greater efficiency. They are making data centers particularly energy- and resource-efficient, redundant and fail-safe....

date 2020/09/17

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Digital Decade: Sustainability and Digitalisation Two Sides of the Same Coin

In her keynote speech on the State of the European Union today, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen set out what the eco Association sees as important goals for the Digital Decade, and addressed some of the most urgent challenges in the context of digitalisation.

date 2020/09/16

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Joint E-Evidence Coalition Letter

e-Evidence needs strong safeguards against inappropriate or abusive cross-border requests for personal data. Any data request should require the explicit validation of a judicial authority from the Member State in which the ISP is based and, from the Member State in which the person whose data is being requested is a resident.

date 2020/09/14

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CSA Digital Email Summit: Legal Insights Vol. 2 – Advertising Concept and Permission

The Importance of Consent to and (Not) Advertising in Marketing Emails: The second in the series of webinars and workshops offered as part of the 2020 CSA Digital Email Summit took place online on 7 September 2020. Alexandra Koch-Skiba and Sebastian Fitting of the eco Complaints Office, and the CSA’s Astrid Braken took the attendees through legal issues related to permission and advertising in the context of email marketing. Read a quick write-up of the webinar here.

date 2020/09/10

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