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Digital Brief: The future of AI in Europe: One question that has returned to the forefront of our minds this week in the tech domain is how does Europe position itself with regards to regulating artificial intelligence? EURACTIV’s Digital Editor Samuel Stolton draws on comments this week from the by The Tech Brief

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Reynders on AI regulation: Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders talks about regulating Artificial Intelligence technologies, as part of a European Parliament Civil Liberties discussion on Tuesday 21 January 2020. by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Your union needs you (to use apps): EU needs app uptake. The European Commission has said this week that the ‘largest possible participation’ of EU citizens is required in order for coronavirus contact tracing applications to work effectively. by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Schrems II: The EU-US Privacy Shield agreement that attempts to guarantee the secure transmission of EU data to the United States, has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice, in a ruling that will provoke major disruption to transatlantic data flows. by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: ‘Major security and privacy issues’: The European Commission has warned against the processing and storage of location data in the use of mobile applications designed to trace the potential spread of the coronavirus across the bloc. EURACTIV Digital Editor Samuel Stolton looks into this is by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Summer not lost: Earlier this week, the executive's VP for Digital, Margrethe Vestager, suggested that coronavirus contact tracing apps could play a vital role in cross-borer travel this summer. Welcome to EURACTIV's Digital Brief Podcast, where we'll look into this issu by The Tech Brief

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The future of EU robotics.: The development of next generation robotics technologies, has been cited as an important part of the EU’s future economic growth and recovery. But there are also perilous pitfalls at play, should the bloc overlook various policy challenges, in terms of hi by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: The Ghost of Cambridge Analytica: Palantir. MEPs have urged the European Commission to provide more details on the EU’s relationship with controversial US big data analytics firm Palantir, following a series of revelations detailing the involvement of the company in Europe. by The Tech Brief

7 min listen

Digital Brief: PEPP-PT The Inside Story: The divergent approaches of EU member states in their privacy protocols for coronavirus contact tracing apps are about to be laid bare, as nations adopt different technologies with different standards, despite the EU attempting to harmonise guidance on th by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Trump Vs Twitter: As Europe readies itself for a public consultation on the upcoming Digital Services Act, US President Donald Trump has adopted a no-holds-barred approach to social media this week, threatening to impose strict regulation or close down Twitter after the pl by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: One App to Rule Them All?: On Monday, the EU’s data watchdog said that the bloc should establish its own “pan-European COVID-19 mobile application” due to divergences in current app developments across the bloc. EURACTIV Digital Editor Samuel Stolton looks into this issue further, by The Tech Brief

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DMA: the interoperability question: EU lawmakers are pushing to include interoperability obligations for messaging services and social media platforms in the Digital Markets Act. The proposal has been met with great interest, but also skepticism on its practical viability. We discuss the ma by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Copyright in Germany: Nations across the bloc only have until early June this year to transpose the EU’s Copyright Directive, adopted in 2019. This week, we hone in on one of the countries that played host to a groundswell of opposition to the plans: Germany. by The Tech Brief

13 min listen

Digital Brief: Competition in the digital single market: Europe's online marketplaces should not be controlled by a handful of dominant gatekeeper platforms, the EU's digital chief Margarethe Vestager has said, referring to her bid to reign in the market dominance of tech giants through the EU's forthcoming new by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Europe’s COVID-19 App Attack.: In a desperate attempt to gain some of a sense of control over the spread of the COVID-19, governments across Europe are looking out to the far-east for lessons on how to trace the spread of the virus. EURACTIV Digital Editor Samuel Stolton looks into thi by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Cancel Culture: This week, 150 prominent writers and academics including Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, Margaret Atwood, Francis Fukuyama, Salman Rushdie, and J.K Rowling, have written an open letter calling for free speech to be preserved online, amid an ongoing trend tow by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: The New Competition Tool is dead: After rumors had been circulating in Brussels earlier this week, the Commission confirmed that the publication of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act would be pushed back to December 15th. This week, we have all the latest on the plans, i by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: DSA & DMA Explained: Online platform giants will be forced to abide by a broad range of obligations as part of ambitious new plans laid out by the European Commission in its Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) on Tuesday.This week, EURACTIV takes a deeper by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: The Gaia-X generation: GAIA-X. France and Germany's bid to create a European cloud infrastructure ecosystem to stave off US and Chinese competitors in the data business was launched today, after Ministers Bruno Le Maire and Peter Altmaier revealed more on their ambitious Gaia-X by The Tech Brief

8 min listen

The Digital Decade: This week, we take a look into the thinking behind the Commission's recently published plans for their so-called 'Digital Decade' targets, and we probe perhaps the blindspots that the EU executive hasn't yet addressed in detail. by The Tech Brief

16 min listen

Digital Brief: Big Tech Breakup: There’s been lots of talk on the EU conference circuit this week, with regards to the best course of action to take as part of new competition capacities to be outlined in the Commission’s Digital Markets Act, set to be unveiled on December 2. And talk of by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: European Digital Identity: European Council summit where EU leaders are set to sign off on commitments made to bolster the EU's digital clout in the world, with a new series of so-called Digital Compass benchmarks for 2030. In the Commission's digital development plans, one initia by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: To GDPR or not?: The European Commission has presented its first review of the application of the General Data Protection Regulation. This week, we take a look at some of the main findings, including how doubt has been cast over the UK’s future data adequacy. by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief, powered by Facebook: Could the Digital Tax return to the EU?: Digital Tax. The debate in Brussels is once again heating up over whether a EU-wide Digital Services Tax could be one of the answers to the economic fallout resulting from the coronavirus.Welcome to EURACTIV's Digital Brief Podcast, where we'll look into by The Tech Brief

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Digital Brief: Will UK be ‘data’ adequate?: The European Commission has concerns that certain aspects of the UK’s data protection regime may change in the future and negatively impact the safety of EU personal data when transferred to the country. by The Tech Brief

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UK-US data transfers: This week, the European Parliament approved two resolutions on the data transfers between the EU and the United States and United Kingdom respectively. The Data Adequacy debate spurred from a ruling of the Court of Justice ofthe European Union from July 2 by The Tech Brief

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What next for Section 230?: Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief podcast, my name is Samuel Stolton and each week, I aim to bring you some of the most relevant and timely technology stories in the world of EU politics and policy. This week, we take a look at the latest hearing of Big by The Tech Brief

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Parliament speaks out on Digital Services Act: Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief podcast, where we bring you a specially curated digital and tech story from the week in the world of EU politics and policy. The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed a series of reports which could have a profo by The Tech Brief

6 min listen

Media freedom for the digital age: Digital technologies and the rise of online platforms have reshaped the way that we produce, share and consume news, but the concept of media freedom has seen comparatively little change. As threats to journalists increase, however, authorities around the by The Tech Brief

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A Digital Euro: This Spring, the European Central Bank will decide whether or not to move ahead with preparatory work to launch a digital euro, a project that could have far-reaching implications for the very foundations of the financial system.Central bankers were given by The Tech Brief

23 min listen

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