The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The EU operates through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions by the member states. Institutions of the EU include the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Central Bank, the Court of Auditors, and the European Parliament.
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If May's Brexit deal passes tonight, she'll have 21 months to build a tech-powered Irish border
Is that enough time to avoid activating the backstop?
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EU demands new standards for blockchain interoperability
As the blockchain sector evolves, it’s important for policy makers and industry to co-create standards to make multi-layered, ...
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EU wants tech independence from the US, but it’ll be tricky
The European Union and its citizens seem increasingly unhappy with the current flow of data, privacy violations, and the ...
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Why 'right to erasure' is stopping companies from complying with GDPR
Time may be relative, but most people will agree that whether you’re launching a business or planning a wedding, two years ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in the UK
By Marta Dawydzik and Andrea Hak In recent months when you heard about the UK there’s a 99 percent chance it was about ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Spain
In the past decade, Spain suffered a significant economic setback with a crippling recession, the bankruptcy of a number ...
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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Belgium
With the best classic comics, specialty beer, gourmet chocolate, and golden brown fries, Belgium has enough local remedies ...
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5G is a threat to Europe’s absolute net neutrality
The EU has done a good job upholding net neutrality since it implemented a law on it back in 2016, but European net neutrality ...
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EU’s proposed upload filters suck and YouTube’s ‘child pornography’ snafu shows why
YouTube just backtracked its inexplicable decision to delete three popular Pokémon Go channels -- Trainer Tips, Mystic7, ...
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EU's final Copyright Reform upholds disastrous upload filters
EU's Copyright Reform has been hotly debated in the last two years, but two of the most controversial articles have now been ...
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Google warns news sites may lose 45% of traffic if EU passes its Copyright Reform
The EU's controversial Copyright Refrom edges closer to becoming law, making opponents of the legislation worried about its ...
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Brexit, Northern Ireland, and the return of extortionate roaming charges
Life is about to get more expensive for those living on the Irish border.
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The UK government's settled status app for EU nationals is an embarrassment
A bit like any central government IT project, really.
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Here's what Google says search results will look like when EU copyright laws kick in
Google has shared screenshots illustrating how its search results could be crippled by the upcoming EU Copyright Directive ...
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What Miley Cyrus’ birthday tweet to her hubby has to do with EU’s upcoming Copyright Reform
This actually isn't as far-fetched as it seems, the highly contested Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Reform might block ...
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European Banking Authority calls for new crypto asset rules
According to an official report released today, the new set of rules would override the current patchwork of different crypto ...
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GDPR’s impact was too soft in 2018, but next year will be different
One of the defining moments for tech in 2018 was on May 25, when the EU implemented its General Data Protection Regulation ...
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A recap of tech's crazy 2018
2018 brought us incredible robots, data theft, callous CEOs, errant self-driving cars, and yet another cryptocurrency crash. ...
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Why we will probably never have a perfect clock
We still have to make sure that the time we define matches our everyday experience of day and night and the rhythms defined ...
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TNW's top 11 women making waves in STEM from 2018
You've heard it a million times before — in the science, technology, engineering, and math industries, women are still ...
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France will tax tech giants in 2019 if EU doesn’t step up
France hasn't given up on creating a tax on digital revenue to prevent the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and ...
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How opportunistic regulation can stifle innovation in blockchain
At the blockchain conferences and blockchain industry discussions over the last two years I had many chances to listen to ...
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What GoDaddy is doing wrong about privacy — here’s what it should do
GoDaddy asks users to pay for privacy protection. It's distasteful that a large domain registrar would charge a fee for a ...
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7 EU countries accuse Google of violating GDPR by tracking users
Consumer groups in the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden, and Norway have asked regulators to look into ...
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Latin America joins EU in considering a new digital tax
Mexico and Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and Argentina are the current Latin American countries who are considering the EU Digital ...
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EU’s investigation into Google AdSense is coming to a close
Margrethe Vestager, EU's Competiton Commissioner, confirmed at Web Summit in Lisbon that the probe into Google AdSense would ...
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Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us
When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? ...
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Here’s how face recognition tech can be GDPR compliant
Ah, face recognition, that nifty little feature that's already making the still new fingerprint scanners (kind of) obsolete. ...
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Facebook can simply say ‘no’ to EU’s proposed audit
EU Parliament has called for an audit on Facebook as it believes the company's handling of data has breached EU law -- but ...
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Facebook fined 0.001% of its 2017 revenue for Cambridge Analytica scandal
UK watchdog just fined Facebook £500,000 for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the amount is unlikely to affect the social ...
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Tim Cook supports EU’s strict privacy laws — but thinks taxes are 'crap'
Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, gave a keynote at ICDPPC where he called for better data policies in tech and lauded EU's GDPR. Unfortunately, ...
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Germany wants a global 'minimum tax' for tech giants' revenue
Germany's finance minister, Olaf Scholz finally supports global minumum tax on tech giants. France and Germany push for the ...
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Bill Gates and the EU announce a €100M investment fund to combat climate change
Bill Gates has signed an agreement with the EU, on behalf of his billionaire investment coaltion, to launch a joint €100M ...
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Why trying to regulate social media is a political mess
Free speech is a key aspect of the internet, but it has become obvious that people push the freedom to extremes. But regulating ...
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How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
Using “cold plasma pyrolysis”, plastic waste could be turned into green energy. It can convert waste plastics into hydrogen, ...
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EU’s new copyright law will cement the dominance of tech giants
The new European Union Copyright Directive, passed recently by the European parliament after a vociferous campaign both for ...
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EU’s decision on Copyright Reform tomorrow could be a turning point for the web
The EU Parliament is having a final vote on Copyright Reform on September 12. The decision will greatly affect the final ...
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EU suggests law to stop Cambridge Analytica-style election meddling
The European Commission is currently working on a proposal which will impose fines on political parties using Cambridge Analytica-style ...
