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• 3 customer-focused strategies that helped the EU’s public transport withstand the pandemic

  So you like our media brand Shift? You should join our Shift event track at TNW2020, where you’ll hear how data, autonomy, ...

  • Cities Today

• What healthtech founders need to know about scaling in Europe

  Healthtech founders — some of whom participated in the X-Europe program run by TNW and four other partners — shared their ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Biggest challenges and opportunities of expanding a tech business across Europe

  Europe's market can hinder growth. We spoke to several entrepreneurs to find out what business challenges they're facing ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Germany drafting EU proposal to introduce pan-European tolls to use motorways

  Germany is reportedly campaigning to introduce national and pan-European tolls for motorway drivers. It's the country's first ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• EU top court bans US-EU data sharing deal over surveillance fears

  The EU's Court of Justice has struck down its Privacy Shield pact with the United States due to concerns about US surveillance. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Apple wins tax battle against EU, avoids $15B fine

  Apple has won its appeal against an EU order to pay Ireland $15bn in back taxes, after Europe's second-highest court rejected ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What Europe's entrepreneurs can learn from DeepCrawl's US expansion

  DeepCrawl made the jump to the US and now generates over 60% of its revenues in North America. Here are 3 important expansion ...

  • Stuart Veale

• EU privacy watchdog thinks that Clearview AI is illegal

  Clearview AI's planned expansion into the EU hit a roadblock yesterday when the bloc's privacy watchdog said it "doubts" ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Podcast: How France, the Netherlands, Latvia, and the EU are supporting startups in times of crisis

  There is no country that hasn't been affected by the coronavirus. A major topic of concern that will affect not only individual ...

  • Data Market Services

• Facebook’s political targeting machine should be cracked open by the DSA

  Europe is about to overhaul its 20-year-old eCommerce Directive and it is a once-in-a-decade chance to correct the power ...

  • Jennifer Baker

• Coronavirus didn't kill our privacy — it just exposed the corpse

  The pandemic is an opportunity to mobilize the grassroots privacy effort and adapt to emergencies. If we don’t, tyrannies ...

  • Mindaugas Kiskis

• YouTube throttles video quality in Europe due to coronavirus

  Don't worry if YouTube videos don't seem as crisp and sharp all of a sudden — the coronavirus self-isolation isn't making ...

  • Mix

• Your gadgets are likely made in Chinese forced labor camps

  A report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that the Chinese government forced Uyghurs to work in forced ...

  • Callum Booth

• Leaked EU legislation would force Apple to use removable batteries in its iPhones

  There was a time when virtually every phone had a removable battery - and then the iPhone was announced. As Apple's trend-setting ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Leak shows EU police aim to create an international facial recognition database

  EU police forces plan to build a network of national police facial recognition database that spans across every member state ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• EU wants to create a single market for European data

  The European Union has unveiled plans to create a single market for EU data that would help the bloc build startups on a ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The EU is right to scrutinize small tech acquisitions — but not in detriment of innovation

  The EU wants to scrutnize small acquisitions made in the continent by foreign tech giants. So, what does this mean for startups ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• George Soros: Zuckerberg is on Trump's side and must be removed

  Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has called for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg to "be removed ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Automated facial recognition breaches GDPR, says EU digital chief

  The EU’s digital and competition chief has said that automated facial recognition breaches GDPR as it doesn't gain consent ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Oh great, the EU has ditched its facial recognition ban

  The European Union is backing away from its plan to ban facial recognition technology -- delegating decisions on the software ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• CO2 regulations hold up the crazy fast Ford Focus RS until 2022

  Amid growing CO2 emissions regulations, the future of the super-hot Ford Focus RS is in doubt, and might be delayed until ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• How to protect your customers’ data after Brexit

  With the UK heading out on its own, implications of leaving GDPR may find companies having to navigate their own version ...

  • Venkat Ramasamy

• The EU’s dull-ass fight with Apple over the Lightning connector sucks

  Well, it looks official: The EU is going to fight Apple over the Lightning connector. And you know what? They all suck. And ...

  • Callum Booth

• Brexit saves UK from the terrible EU copyright laws it helped create

  The UK’s decision is most likely good news for the internet, but we won't know the true effects of the EU directive until ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Report: Whichever country claims AI supremacy this decade will rule the Earth

  The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI ...

  • Tristan Greene

• The EU isn't particularly fond of Canada's anti-piracy laws

  The European Commission isn't particularly happy with Canada's copyright policy (or the lack thereof) — and it's got some ...

  • Mix

• Swiss president: 'Libra has failed'

  Libra is coming under fire once again. This time, Switzerland's president Ueli Maurer is speaking out against Facebook's ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• France fines Google €150 million for abusing its ad dominance

  Google faces yet another antitrust fine as regulating pressure builds up on both sides of the Atlantic.

  • Már Másson Maack

• Moonday Morning: Buterin says Ethereum Foundation made $100M by dumping Ether at the top

  Welcome to yet another Monday and with that, another Moonday Morning – Hard Fork's selection of this weekend's top cryptocurrency ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 3 ways EU’s new leadership will shape global tech

  On December 1, European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen will take the helm, and the technology industry will ...

  • Patrick Matthews

• Czech gov wants to slap a 7% ad tax on internet giants like Google and Facebook

  If the Czech government's tax will be accepted by parliament, the Czech Republic will join EU countries like France and Italy ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 265 Indian fake news sites caught pushing anti-Pakistan propaganda

  Researchers have discovered a network of 265 fake local news sites across 65 countries that are being used to disseminate ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• The EU is coming after big tech again — this time for political ads

  The EU is said to be considering new political ad regulations so that "people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Australia reportedly wants to grill Facebook about its 'cryptocurrency' plans

  Facebook may have to divulge further details about its plans after failing to lessen regulatory concerns in Australia.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• EU proposes issuing its own digital currency to counteract the Libra effect

  The European Central Bank should look into the prospect of launching its own public digital currency.

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Facebook faces EU grilling over Libra 'cryptocurrency' after losing PayPal backing

  As Facebook deals with the loss of PayPal's backing for its 'cryptocurrency' Libra, the tech giant must now get ready to ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• EU courts can now force Facebook to remove ‘illegal comments’ worldwide

  The is yet another landmark ruling from the CJEU in a period of few weeks, but the latest one might be monumental in defning ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Cryptocurrency-focused bank scores $10M from backers including Binance and Polychain Capital

  The Malta-based cryptocurrency-focused Founders Bank has raised $10 million from leading investors including Binance and ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• EU's top court says pre-checked boxes for tracking cookies are illegal

  Europe's highest court, the CJEU, has ruled that pre-checked cookie consent boxes do not provide the necessary legal consent ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Bitcoin scammers impersonate Buckingham palace in attempted Brexit ruse

  Just when you thought Bitcoin scammers couldn’t stoop any lower, they’ve now taken to impersonating Buckingham Palace. ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Google’s unsurprising refusal to pay for news snippets undermines new EU copyright law

  Google will stop including snippets of news stories in France from EU publishers, and only display headlines and thumbnails ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Why is the EU adding a painful extra step to your online shopping?

  Europe is famous for many things, and a variety of regulations that directly or indirectly affect online businesses is one ...

  • Mark Thompson

• Japan doesn’t want to fight Facebook’s 'cryptocurrency' Libra on its own

  Facebook's controversial 'cryptocurrency' Libra is facing yet more scrutiny after the governor of Japan's central bank called ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• EU top court rules Google doesn’t need to apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ globally

  Google argued if search results were removed globally, it would risk abuse by authoritarian governments. Now it only needs ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• France calls for EU-wide cryptocurrency rules amid Libra concerns

  The European Union needs to establish a common set of rules for cryptocurrencies to counteract risks posed by Facebook’s ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Australia's plan to block sites hosting extremist content during crisis events seems flawed

  Australia is taking the first step of cutting off access to any internet domain that hosts terrorist material during a crisis ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Facebook's 'cryptocurrency' Libra reportedly facing EU competition probe

  The European Union’s antitrust regulators are “currently investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” amid concerns ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 23 job sites to report Google’s job search for EU antitrust violation

  Google might be hit with yet another antitrust case as rival job search companies have reported the tech giant to the EU ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Report: Cryptocurrency businesses must register with Czech regulator or face $560K fine

  Cryptocurrency companies operating in the Czech Republic will reportedly be subject to greater control by the government, ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Apple and Google suspend monitoring of voice recordings by humans (Update: Amazon too)

  Apple is globally suspending the use of Siri voice recordings after reports emerged that contractors hired by the company ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• India to seek EU’s approval on GDPR compliance for 'adequacy' status

  The Economic Times reports that India is gearing up to seek 'adequacy' status with the European Union's General Data Protection ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• EU's GPS-like Galileo satellites have been down since July 11

  Europe’s positioning satellites, Galileo, have been out of action since July 11 for mysterious reasons. On the page showing ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Huawei wants to name its Android OS replacement 'Harmony' in Europe

  Huawei has filed a trademark application with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, attempting to register the ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• US risks its leading role in tech by leaving regulations to the EU

  The borderless nature of tech regulation puts immense power in the hands of the EU, which has emerged as the de-facto global ...

  • Emmanuel Schalit

• EU lawmakers need to look beyond the ‘top layer’ when regulating the internet

  Brussels policy makers could be forgiven for wanting to move quickly to regulate ‘the internet.’ Assailed by an avalanche ...

  • Caroline Greer

• Coinbase’s crypto debit card launches in 6 more EU countries, despite user problems

  Following its launch in the UK in April, Coinbase is rolling out its cryptocurrency debit card to more European countries. ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• EU will force electric cars to emit a noise below 20 km/h on July 1

  Starting July 1, all electric vehicles with four or more wheels in the EU will be required to emit noise of at least 56 decibels ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• This location tracking tech could save your life across the EU in 2020

  AML is a little-known feature that automatically activates the geo-locating capabilities of iOS and Android phones, but countries ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 2/3 of EU states voted for atrocious Copyright Reform — now all will have to adopt it

  EU member states just accepted the controversial Copyright Reform, making it EU law in the next 2 years. Opponents fear it'll ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Growing up in the Soviet Union made me fear the EU Copyright Reform

  Just 30 years ago, if you wanted to publish something in Soviet Lithuania, it meant clearing the censor first. Articles, ...

  • Mindaugas Kiskis

• EU proposal requires platforms to delete ‘terrorist content’ in 1 hour or face fines

  The EU's proposed terrorism regulation could lead unwanted censorships and will be tough for smaller platforms, risking further ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Stop trying to solve Brexit with blockchain

  With so much at stake, it’s incredibly frustrating that technologists are taking the opportunity to tout blockchain as ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• European Parliament votes ‘yes’ on controversial Copyright Reform

  The EU Parliament approved the Copyright Reform in its entirety, not accepting amendments to the most controversial parts; ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• New EU regulations put an end to buying Bitcoin anonymously

  New European Union compliance regulations are making it impossible for users to obscure their identity when they buy cryptocurrency ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Inside GitHub’s fight to protect devs from EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform

  The EU will have a final vote on its controversial Copyright Reform and March 26. If it's passed, it could risk open source ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Brexit is a mess, but UK startups may find refuge in Estonia’s e-Residency

  Brexit will happen soon-ish (who knows really?) and UK startups will lose access to the EU single market, but Estonia offers ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Here’s why you’re having issues with Reddit and Wikipedia in the EU

  The final vote on the EU's controversial Copyright Reform will take place on March 26. If it's passed it could have disastrous ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• EU fines Google €1.49 billion in AdSense antitrust case

  The EU has announced the third big antitrust fine against Google. The EU found Google's AdSense abused its market dominance ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• If the UK holds a second Brexit referendum, can it protect it from trolls and astroturfers?

  Maybe. Maybe not.

  • Matthew Hughes

• 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?

  • Matthew Hughes

• 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, ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 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 ...

  • Robert Overweg

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Andrea Hak

• 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 ...

  • Andrea Hak

• 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 ...

  • Andrea Hak

• Brexit, Northern Ireland, and the return of extortionate roaming charges

  Life is about to get more expensive for those living on the Irish border.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The UK government's settled status app for EU nationals is an embarrassment

  A bit like any central government IT project, really.

  • Matthew Hughes

• 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 ...

  • Amnon Drori

• 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 ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Mindaugas Kiskis

• 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 ...

  • Dan Storbaek

• 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. ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Cara Curtis

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Jordan T. Jones

• 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? ...

  • Jayson DeMers

• 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. ...

  • Parth Misra

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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, ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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, ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • The Conversation

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• 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 ...

  • Már Másson Maack