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eco on EU Ethics Guidelines for AI: Promoting Societal Discourse on Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence

Commenting on the new guidelines for the ethical use of artificial intelligence presented by the EU Commission, eco Chair Oliver J. Süme welcomes the EU's message concerning the development of trustworthy AI applications. With its own guidelines for handling AI, as well as a Digital Ethics Compendium, the eco Association is helping to promote a whole-society discourse on responsibility for artificial intelligence.

date 2019/04/08

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Events

eco:// award & kongress 2019

Meet the shapers of digitalization and the leading minds of the Internet industry in Cologne. At the eco://kongress, talk over the most important future topics of digitalization and, together with us, pave the way for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Followed by the 18th eco://award, where trend-setting companies and their solutions are awarded.

date 2019/11/21 placeCologne

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Policy & Law

IT Skills Shortage: Digital Infrastructure Operators Support...

Many industries are looking for skilled specialists in Germany, but few sectors are so affected by the search for suitable personnel as the drivers of the digital transformation. The Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany is supporting an initiative “Establishing STEM's Future” in proactively tackling this skills shortage.

date 2019/04/04

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E-Mail

Email Transport Ecryption: STARTTLS vs. DANE vs. MTA-STS

The scope of this document is limited to the encrypted transport between two email servers. The connection between Email Client and Server or End-to-End encryption is not included, but should also be taken into consideration for the security of the entire system. Transport encryption between email servers is essential to...

date 2019/04/04

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E-Mail

Email Senders Need Effective Consent for Sponsoring

Consent for the sending of marketing emails is only valid if the statement of purpose is sufficiently specific and the consent is given based on an understanding of the situation. However, there are frequently uncertainties regarding the formulation of the consent declaration, and these may indeed mean that it does not...

date 2019/04/04

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Policy & Law

eco Complaints Office Annual Report 2018: “Principle of Take-down Instead of Blocking Works”

The eco Complaints Office published its Annual Report on 3 April 2019 in the European Parliament and demonstrates that the principle of “take-down instead of blocking” works.

date 2019/04/03

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Security

KG – Anti Abuse - DNSSEC

eco on LOCATION Thomas Rickert, Lawyer and Director Names & Numbers; Lars Steffen, Director of eco International & Project Manager of Blockchain & Domains; Michael Weirich, Security Analyst, and Patrick Koetter, eco Competence Group Abuse.

As part of the CSA Summit 2019, members of the eco competence groups "Anti-Abuse", "E-Mailauth" and "Names & Numbers" as well as CSA members will meet up on April 10, 2019, in Cologne in order to engage in an open dialogue on the topic DNSSEC.

date 2019/04/10 placeCologne

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