The Impact of the NIS2 Directive’s Article 28 on the DNS Industry Report from the workshop at ICANN78 in Hamburg, 20 October 2023 The NIS2 Directive The European Union took a significant step towards strengthening cybersecurity in 2016 with the introduction of the Network and Information Security Directive...

12 December 2023 starting at 17:00pm CET 16:00pm UTC/11:00am EDT topDNS Best Practice Series: Addressing, evidencing, and mitigating abuse in Web3 CleanDNS, Freename & eco's topDNS Initiative invite you to the sixth in a series of topDNS best practice webinars highlighting what the domain name industry...

With both the Council and the Parliament having cleared the way for trilogue negotiations on the Cyber Resilience Act on 19 July 2023, the proposed Regulation of cybersecurity requirements for networked products is now at the helm of the debate on increasing the level of safety products and services for customers and networks.

After two years since the formation of the current German "traffic light" coalition, eco provides a mixed assessment of the progress in digital policy. In the Traffic Light Coalition Check, the association analysed twelve areas of Internet policy action and compared them with the goals of the coalition agreement. The conclusion reached by eco Chair of the Board Oliver Süme. “Instead of an ambitious digital policy, after two years of the current German coalition government, we are experiencing at best a stop-and-go.”

38.1 per cent pay attention to different payment methods when shopping on the Internet Relevant reviews from 36.4 per cent of other shoppers eco Association gives 7 tips for shopping on Black Friday without concerns With the Christmas shopping season beginning on Black Friday, 80.6 per cent of online shoppers are...

Germany is at a turning point. At the German federal government’s Digital Summit in Jena on 20 and 21 November 2023, representatives from business, society, science and politics will discuss how digital services and technologies contribute to addressing multiple challenges such as the fight against effects of advancing climate change, the increasing scarcity of resources, or the energy crisis.

To mark the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, the German hotlines FSM, eco and jugendschutz.net have compiled important tips for dealing in Germany with online depictions of abuse of minors.

Today, the EU Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) voted in favour of its recently presented compromise on the EU Commission’s proposed CSAM Regulation. With this compromise, the lead EU parliamentary committee imposes clear limitations on the proposed chat controls and opposes the weakening of end-to-end encryption.