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Welcome to the technical summary of EURACTIV, your weekly update on everything virtual in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here.
Story of the week: The Council seems to have a lot to say, at the moment, on the draft platform staff directive submitted through the European Commission last December.
According to a first compromise text received through EURACTIV and discussed this week, the French Presidency must maintain the list of criteria for determining the relationship between staff and platforms within the framework of the text, unlike the European Parliament’s draft report, which is much more disruptive. .
Although the Presidency has given explanations here and there, in particular on the perception of ‘rebuttable presumption’, its proposal remains, for the most part, to what the European Executive has put on the table.
However, among the few additions, the French Presidency noted that, while the competent national government may rely on the presumption when assessing the contractual relationship, it cannot do so if it is “obvious that the presumption would be rebutted” on the basis of “prior presumptions” assessments of the competent national government and applicable judicial decisions”.
After all, it is the legal problems that are of the greatest concern to the Member States. While some countries, such as France, have already incorporated some of the proposed criteria into their national legislation, others are concerned that the proposal will replace their labor markets and worry about introducing a 3rd state.
Although adopting other approaches, the French Presidency has also proposed that the algorithmic control framework “for the work of the user action platform” be as vital as the correct determination of their employment status, as the European Parliament will try to exert pressure on . Read the full story.
Don’t miss: There’s a new guy in the neighborhood!Following a reorganisation in the Austrian government, Florian Tursky has been welcomed as the new State Secretary for Digitalisation and Broadband at the Ministry of Finance. Previously, virtual problems in Austria were divided between the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Agriculture. The Federal Departments Act is now expected to pass in the coming weeks, which will outline its precise spaces of activity. driver’s licenses and virtual education.
On the other hand, French tech companies will have to do without any direct point of contact in the new government because the list revealed last week does leave room for any digital secretary of state. However, they claim that the portfolio of Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has now expanded to “digital sovereignty”. Read the full story.
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Before we begin: This week, Dan Sexton, CTO of the Internet Watch Foundation, a UK non-profit for child safety, and Ella Jakubowska, policy advisor for the European Digital Rights Network, joined the podcast to talk about the proposal to take pictures of child sexual abuse online.
On 11th May the European Commission unveiled its long-awaited proposal to combat child pornography material, or CSAM, for its acronym in English.
Although children’s organizations have earned a lot from this regulation, it has also raised many considerations for. . .
Deep false approach. The Austrian government has published its strategy to combat deep fakes, which it hopes will help combat disinformation and hate speech. The immediate digitization caused by the pandemic has led to an accumulation of AI-based content, which has been a key threat to security policy. through the Austrian authorities. The government’s action plan, published this week, defines 4 axes and aims to raise awareness among the population. The EU has also addressed the deep counterfeit factor through several factors, adding the AI Act and the DSA. Read more .
Clearview back fined. Controversial facial popularity company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7. 5 million through the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for what the authority considers its collection of photographs of British faces illegal. According to the ICO, the American company has recovered more than 20 billion facial photographs from the internet, adding social media, to create a global online knowledge base for its facial popularity software. it has been imposed. As part of the sanction, it was ordered to prevent the practice and remove all non-public knowledge it already has about UK residents. This is not the first time the company has come under regulatory scrutiny, as it has been the subject of similar investigations and fines in countries, adding Australia, France and Italy.
Does it have a large-scale effect? Although the war in Ukraine is the first genuine cyber warfare in Europe, no primary effects have yet been reported, either in Ukraine or elsewhere in the region. However, the number of attacks has increased and countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia are experiencing an increase in DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. In Poland, for example, experts proposed that citizens be prepared for short-term disruptions of key facilities as a result of low-risk attacks. Read more.
A Google cybersecurity expert said this week that a Google cybersecurity expert said a newly created site containing email leaks from several high-profile Brgo out advocates dates back to Russian hackers. The site, dubbed the “Very English State Coop,” posted messages from top supporters of the U. K. Leaving the EU, which said it is part of an organization of Brgo outeer extremists who maintain a secret force in London. and, according to a Johns Hopkins cybersecurity researcher, it resembles previous leaks, such as the one that saw the spread of emails from Democratic politicians in preparation for the 2016 U. S. election. Read more.
Take a stand. In a context of increased awareness of threats in cyberspace, the Council of the EU adopted on Monday (23 May) conclusions on the progression of cyber mail in the Union. This position aims to show that the EU is committed to providing fast and long-term services. Long-term responses to threats. It highlights five EU purposes in cyberspace, adding building resilience and strengthening solidarity and cooperation with partner countries and organisations. More specifically, the position insists on the need to establish regular cyber exercises to verify and expand the response.
A new technique for adtech. If responses to ad tech disruptions are successful, tech corporations and regulators will have to work together, and the false binary between festival and privacy will have to be broken, Udbhav Tiwari, Mozilla’s senior director of global public policy, told EURACTIV during the week. . It’s also vital to move forward, he said, making sure that the progression of those responses doesn’t just happen within silos, but with the involvement of criteria bodies and regulators, “essentially to make sure they’re part of the internet than a proprietary solution that’s developed within a technology company. Read more.
sites block loading. The imaginable blocking of five pornographic sites through French justice will have to wait a little longer. The sites in question, accused of not having put enough controls in place to prevent minors from accessing their content, may have noticed that their fate made a decision. on Tuesday, however, the French audiovisual and virtual regulator (Arcom) made a procedural error, postponing the hearing for several weeks. .
Actions will have to stick to words. The German government, adding virtual minister Volker Wissing, has continuously expressed its considerations on possible cat control as part of the European Commission’s proposal to fight online child pornography. However, so far it has not expressed it. complaint in the Council of Ministers of the EU, where it matters. “The words of the coalition agreement will have to be fulfilled with deeds in Brussels,” said Felix Reda, a former member of Germany’s European Parliament.
GDPR. On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of European data privacy rules, the GDPR, in force since May 25, 2018, the president of the German virtual arrangement Bitkom, Achim Berg, criticized. The German app needed an update because the claim to “unify the EU knowledge coverage law and the knowledge coverage practice so far have only been partially realized,” Berg said. According to a bitkom study, only 37% of sellers with 20 or more workers in Germany say regulation is a competitive merit, 40% do not. they see it as a merit and 18% even see it as a demerit. Nearly two-thirds of respondents even say that knowledge coverage makes it difficult to implement knowledge-based business models in their companies.
Privacy Shield 2. 0? Noyb, the privacy organization led by activist Max Schrems, has written an open letter to several U. S. and European officials, adding Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, the U. S. Secretary of Commerce and Commerce. USA Gina Raimond and the President of the European Data Protection Board, Andrea. Jelinek. , expressing fears that the recent interim agreement on a new transatlantic knowledge privacy framework will replicate the EU-US knowledge movement. UU. ” Privacy Shield” which was intended to replace an action filed through Schrems. However, the noyb now says that the new political agreement, which is not a constant agreement, risks recreating old problems, for example, through the objection of the US. .
Older brother. The La Quadrature du Net arrangement must move into war against the “mass surveillance system” in France. On Tuesday, he filed an online signature collection crusade to register a collective complaint with the CNIL. Activists that there are too many CCTVs, facial popularity and behavioral tracking devices and that their use is disproportionate and unnecessary. The aim is to revive the debate over surveillance in France in the run-up to the 2024 Olympics, which the deal fears will become a testing floor for facial popularity.
They are wanted: talents. Nicosia hosted last Friday the first inaugural European codification challenge, where young Cypriots won education and the recommendation of generation experts as the EU tries to ensure it will not run out of the skills it wants to achieve virtual sovereignty. some 4,000 IT specialists, according to Kyriacos Kokkinos, the country’s deputy minister of research, innovation and virtual policy, who spoke on the occasion and spoke to EURACTIV. Read more.
Opposition to sanctions. A coalition of Dutch organisations this week filed a petition calling on the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) to investigate sanctions against Kremlin-backed media RT and Sputnik, imposed through the Commission in March. The Freedom of Information Coalition said the move was taken “in a hurry” and without judicial review, arguing that the ruling was political and has instead been made through independent judges. Read more.
SLAPP detected. Media watchdogs have filed an alert on the Council of Europe’s (CoE) pan-European human rights platform for press freedom after Ireland’s opposition leader filed a defamation complaint against the country’s broadcaster, RTÉ. The complaint relates to a radio programme broadcast in February, which concerned long-standing allegations of mismanagement of allegations of sexual abuse through Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army. Current Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, who did not appear on the show, has now filed a defamation action, which the Council of Europe describes as an SLAPP, or Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, the use of which through a recent EU directive aims to disrupt. Read more.
Moscow’s media control is tightening. EU sanctions against RT and Sputnik were also taken into account through Russia this week, with the passage of a bill in the shrinking space of the country’s parliament that would allow prosecutors to close Moscow’s foreign media offices if the West is deemed to have been “unfriendly” to Russian media. The bill will have to go through two more legislative stages before it becomes law, but if it does, it will mean that the content of any media directed through the prosecutor’s office can’ The law follows the passage of another previous Russian bill this year, which banned the spread of “false information” about the war in Ukraine, and added that he described it as such, a move that led to the closure of many foreign media outlets. . Read more.
App store rivalry. The Russian social network VK this week presented its app store with the aim of generating opportunities for Western services. RuStore was made available to Android users on Wednesday, due to market conditions, the Kremlin’s communications and media minister said, referring to the fact. that Russian users’ access to the app stores of Apple and Google, the world’s two largest, has been limited in reaction to the invasion of Ukraine in February. Read more.
personal duty. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a lawsuit from the Washington, D. C. , attorney general over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed that the non-public knowledge of millions of American users was collected on Facebook for political purposes in the 2016 U. S. election. The lawsuit seeks to position non-public duty over the Facebook co-founder for what it says is his direct involvement in the company’s policies that facilitated the extraction of knowledge. According to Attorney General Karl Racine, Zuckerberg’s preference to open the platform to outside developers despite awareness of the dangers of knowledge leaks and his involvement in the platform’s day-to-day operations are grounds for direct responsibility.
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Laura Kabelka contributed to the report.
[Edited through Alice Taylor]
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