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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Sustainable Digital Infrastructures: “Digitalisation is more than just streaming video”

“When it comes to sustainability, digitalisation should be seen as part of the solution, not as part of the problem,” says Alexander Rabe, Managing Director of eco on the occasion of the presentation today by Environment Minister Svenja Schulze of plans for more energy and resource efficiency in digital infrastructures.

date 2020/09/10

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Study: The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025

Study The Internet Industry in Germany 2020–2025 & Germany 2030 – Digital Infrastructure Scenarios The Internet industry is entering a digital decade of superlatives: The study "The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025" forecasts revenue growth of 75 percent for the Internet industry in Germany. This makes...

date 2020/09/10

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Study: "The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025"

The eco/ADL study: "The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025"

date 2020/09/10

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Legal Insights Vol. 2 - Advertising concept and permission

  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. The series of workshop on legal issues...

date 2020/09/09

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eco on the Amendment to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB): “Harmonised EU Approach Instead of National Go-it-Alone Efforts”

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) today passed the now 10th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). eco takes a critical stance on the planned changes in competition law.

date 2020/09/09

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Artificial Intelligence: eco Association Cautions Against an Innovation Standstill

This week, the German Bundestag intends to pass a motion on the “Future Technology Artificial Intelligence”, which will include a statement on the European Commission’s AI White Paper. In February of this year, the EU Commission announced stronger regulations in its AI White Paper.  

date 2020/09/09

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