Commissioner candidates prepare to be grilled on digital policy priorities
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30 September 2019
Commissioner candidates prepare to be grilled on digital policy priorities
'Technological sovereignty' has become the new buzzword among digital movers and shakers in the EU institutions, as the Commissioner candidates who will oversee digital policy making prepare for their...
EC Expert Group calls for changes to antitrust enforcement in digital markets
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16 April 2019
EC Expert Group calls for changes to antitrust enforcement in digital markets
By Francine Cunningham, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Bird & Bird and Baptist Vleeshouwers, Associate (Brussels). In these final months of Margrethe Vestager's mandate as European Competition...
Should we be building online prior restraint machines?
5 min to read
19 January 2018
Should we be building online prior restraint machines?
We are living in an age in which there is intense pressure from every direction to make online intermediaries – or at least the social media platforms - police their users' content and behaviour. The...
4 min to read
27 November 2017
Political agreement reached on draft Regulation on geo-blocking – entry into force end of 2018
The European Commission has announced that the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission have reached a political agreement on restrictions on geo-blocking, with new rules coming into effect...
5 min to read
24 October 2017
Proposed EU Regulation on the free flow of non-personal data
As part of the Digital Single Market strategy, the Commission has set the goal for building a European data economy. In that context, the Commission has published a proposal for a Regulation on a framework...
Data ownership in the context of the European data economy: proposal for a new right
1 min to read
07 February 2017
Data ownership in the context of the European data economy: proposal for a new right
Our International Tech & Comms team in Brussels has made an extensive analysis of the EU legal framework related to data ownership. They performed their research as part of their work in the EU-funded...
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