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New Council President can steer Europe towards Digital Leadership
December 1, 2014
Donald Tusk today takes office as President of the European Council representing the 28 EU Member States. This inauguration completes the EU’s five year leadership change.
Mr Tusk’s challenges ...
EU Parliament Passes Resolution To Pressure EC to Consider Unbundling Search Services
November 27, 2014
Brussels - The European Parliament has passed a measure asking the European Commission to consider unbundling search engines from other commercial services. The move is seen as a political one after a...
EU To Consider Splitting Search Providers
November 23, 2014
The European Parliament filed a draft motion aimed at splitting Google’s search engine from its other commercial services. The motion could come up for a vote this month, though the move is largely ...
President Obama Announces Executive Action Including Some Measures For Skilled Workers
November 20, 2014
Washington -- President Obama announced his administration’s executive action on immigration Thursday evening in a prime- time address. The President seeks to streamline employment-based immigration...
The New Commission Must Make Online Sales Restrictions A Priority
November 20, 2014
Completing the digital single market to support Europe’s increasingly connected economy will be a top priority for the new Juncker-led Commission. While Commission officials embark upon formulating ...
CCIA Disappointed With USA FREEDOM Act Vote
November 19, 2014
The Senate fell two votes short Tuesday evening in its attempt to bring the USA FREEDOM Act to the floor for debate. The Computer & Communications Industry Association is disappointed to see yet...
CCIA: Extend U.S. Privacy Protections to Europeans
November 18, 2014
Brussels -- Relations between the world’s two biggest trading blocs, the European Union (EU) and the United States, remain strained more than a year after the first revelations by Edward Snowden.
In...
Senate Preparing to Take Up Surveillance Reform in USA FREEDOM Act of 2014
November 13, 2014
Washington – The Senate has taken a step towards meaningful surveillance reform in the final weeks of the 113th Congress, after the Senate moved closer to a vote on the USA FREEDOM Act.
The biparti...
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
November 13, 2014
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
AT&T Threatens Fiber Build Out If Open Internet Rules Are Approved
November 13, 2014
Washington - Days after President Obama weighed in on Open Internet rules, saying the Internet was too critical to let a few big network access companies become gatekeepers for content, one of those b...
Wall Street Journal Open Internet Reporter Has a Grip; Editorial and Opinion Pages — Not So Much
November 12, 2014
If the FCC ends up deferring to common sense and classifies landline Internet access as a telecommunications service, most advocates for that move support use of only a few core provisions of Title II...