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Supreme Court Rules That Cell Site Location Information Has Fourth Amendment Protection
June 22, 2018
Washington -- Law enforcement cannot access a criminal suspect’s cell site location information without a warrant based on probable cause, according to a Supreme Court ruling today. Carpenter v. Uni...
Supreme Court Opens Floodgates to Internet Extraterritorial Taxation in 5-4 Vote
June 21, 2018
Washington -- The Supreme Court has issued a ruling permitting states to tax e-commerce providers outside their own borders.
The case, pitting South Dakota against Wayfair, Overstock.com, and Newegg,...
CCIA Welcomes Political Agreement on the Free Flow of Data in the EU
June 20, 2018
Brussels -- A political agreement was achieved late today on the legislative proposal on the free flow of non-personal data in the EU. The European Parliament and the Council is expected to official...
European Parliament Committee Vote on Copyright Ignores Warnings From Academics, Civil Rights Groups and Online Sector
June 19, 2018
Brussels -- The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament today adopted its report on the copyright proposal. MEPs adopted upload filters for online platforms and narrowly voted to introduce ...
CCIA Predicts Chinese Tariffs Will Backfire
June 15, 2018
Washington -- The White House has announced it will implement a 25-percent tariff on $50 billion in Chinese goods in a move that has already sparked retaliation. The final scope of affected goods coul...
Event Recap: The Online Platform Ecosytem
June 13, 2018
On June 6, CCIA hosted a conference on the online platform ecosystem in Brussels. After a keynote delivered by DG CNECT’s Werner Stengg we had an expert panel discussion on the right regulatory fr...
European Commission Publishes Assessment on Takedown of Illegal Content
June 13, 2018
Brussels -- The European Commission published today it’s “Progress Report towards an effective and genuine Security Union”. This report includes the first reporting following the publication in ...
New Members: CCIA Europe Welcomes Samsung Electronics and Zebra Technologies
June 12, 2018
Brussels, BELGIUM -- Zebra Technologies is the latest company to join the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Zebra Technologies manufactures and sells innovative mobile computing so...
CCIA Joins Copyright Day of Action
June 12, 2018
Today CCIA Europe joins internet users, digital rights groups, scientific and research institutions, publishers and technology businesses for a Copyright Day of Action.
Unfortunately, European Membe...
Net Neutrality Enforcement Ends Today
June 11, 2018
Washington -- As of today, the agency Congress created to oversee communications networks will no longer ban broadband internet service providers from slowing, blocking or discriminating against inter...
CCIA Supports Encrypt Act
June 7, 2018
Washington -- Representatives Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Mike Bishop, R-Mich, Suzan DelBene, D-Wa., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have reintroduced the ENCRYPT Act. The bill would prevent states from mandating or ...
Data flows in the EU: CCIA welcomes European Parliament vote, urges fast and ambitious final adoption
June 4, 2018
Brussels -- The European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection today voted through the legislative proposal on the free flow of non-personal data in the EU. The commi...