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Article | 6/07/2011 EU OKs switching to cheaper roaming contracts when abroad
The European Commission has proposed regulations that will allow consumers to sign up for a cheaper mobile roaming contract, distinct from their contr...
Article | 6/07/2011 EU upset by Microsoft warning about US access to EU cloud
Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection D...
Article | 1/07/2011 EU rules reduce price of mobile roaming, but problems remain
New European Union rules came into force on Friday, reducing the cost for consumers of using mobile phones abroad.
Article | 30/06/2011 OECD declaration on Internet policy angers EFF
The OECD on Wednesday <a href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/40/21/48289796.pdf">issued a communication</a> on developing Internet policy that puts pre...
Article | 24/06/2011 EU to Web companies: "Sort out privacy by 2012, or else!"
The European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has told Web companies to come up with a do-not-track standard by mid-2012, or the Commission will ha...
Article | 24/06/2011 European Parliament approves online shopping laws
The European Parliament has approved new European Union-wide rules for online shopping.
Article | 23/06/2011 EU network access fine sends message to telcos
The European Commission has sent a clear message to telecom operators that they must allow access to their networks and wholesale broadband markets to...
Article | 22/06/2011 GPL faces test in German court
A court case that open-source advocates say could have major repercussions on the GPL opened in German district court in Berlin Tuesday.
Article | 21/06/2011 Social networking self-regulation isn't working says EU
Only two social networking sites make minors' profiles private by default, according to a test of 14 such sites conducted for the European Commission.
Article | 16/06/2011 Senior EU official wants ISPs to safeguard public values
A senior European Commission official has said that Internet service providers (ISPs) should be responsible for safeguarding public values.
Article | 16/06/2011 New plans to use 1.4GHz could to solve EU's spectrum crunch
The use of the 1.4GHz band for a supplemental mobile downlink could solve Europe's spectrum-crunch problem, according to a new report presented Wednes...
Article | 15/06/2011 EU ministers seek to ban creation of 'hacking tools'
Justice Ministers across Europe want to make the creation of "hacking tools" a criminal offense, but critics have hit back at the plans, saying that t...
Article | 11/06/2011 EU will take a year to set up full cybersecurity agency
Security experts have criticized the European Commission's plans to set up a team to look at how to combat cyberattacks as too little, too late, sayin...
Article | 10/06/2011 German crime stats deal blow to EU's data retention laws
The latest statistics published by German police show that telecommunications data retention has had no positive impact on the number of cases solved.
Article | 9/06/2011 Copyright advocates slam ISPs for not stopping piracy
Representatives of the music industry attacked ISPs on Wednesday at the World Copyright Summit in Brussels.

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