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Insight EU Dossier Data and Internet Governance – Update August 2021

Sep 1, 2021 ,

Content of this Insight EU Dossier update:

AUGUST 2021

  • Digital policies: Exchange of views with Executive VP Margrethe Vestager – EU Parliament Committees – 6/9/2021
  • EU Parliament Briefing: The EU digital decade: A new set of digital targets for 2030 – 31/8/2021
# IGF 2021
  • Announcements of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021
# ICANN
  • Revised Dates for ICANN72 Virtual Annual General Meeting – as of 19/8/2021
# EDPS
  • EDPS opinion on fair access to credit through consumer and data protection – 26/8/2021
  • Proposal for a solution in the case 274/2021/TE on the EDPS’s refusal to grant public access to documents related to a report concerning the Schrems II judgment
# AI
  • EP In-Depth Analysis – Artificial intelligence at EU borders: Overview of applications and key issues 1/8/2021
# CYBERSECURITY
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Commission response to cyber attacks – 30/8/2021
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Measures to protect against cybercrime in a time of increasing digitalisation – 16/8/2021
# DMA/DSA
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Statutory restrictions on oligopolistic practices by EU ‘tech giants’ – 10/8/2021
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Framework for an EU Digital Single Market – 10/8/2021
  • EP At a Glance – Online advertising: the impact of targeted advertising on advertisers, market access and consumer choice – PE 662.941 – Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection –
  • AMENDMENTS 541 – 917 – Draft opinion Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC – Committee on Legal Affairs
  • AMENDMENTS 918 – 1151 – Draft opinion Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC – Committee on Legal Affairs
  • AMENDMENTS 38 – 216 – Draft opinion Contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act) – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
  • AMENDMENTS 115 – 223 – Draft opinion Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC – Committee on Culture and Education
  • AMENDMENTS 224 – 480 – Draft opinion Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC – Committee on Culture and Education
# DATA PROTECTION
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Census 2021 and personal data protection – 17/8/2021
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Dispute with US companies operating in the EU over data protection rules – 12/8/2021
  • EP REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Framework Decision 2002/465/JHA, as regards its alignment with EU rules on the protection of personal data
  • EP REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/41/EU, as regards its alignment with EU rules on the protection of personal data
# E-PRIVACY
  • EP In-Depth Analysis: Regulating targeted and behavioural advertising in digital services. How to ensure users’ informed consent
  • EP Briefing: Regulating targeted and behavioural advertising in digital services. How to ensure users’ informed consent
# DATA GOVERNANCE
  • REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European data governance (Data Governance Act) – 6/8/2021
# EIDS
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – The European Digital Identity and existing regional and national eIDs – 17/8/2021
# EU COMMISSION
  • Dutch scale-up EclecticIQ receives €15 million in EU financing to boost development of next-gen cyber security platform
# EU PARLIAMENT
  • EPRS online policy roundtable: How will Artificial Intelligence change humanity? 29/9/2021
# EU MEMBER STATES
– GERMANY
  • Europäischer Aktionsmonat der Cyber-Sicherheit: BSI koordiniert deutschlandweite Aktionen – 27/8/2021
  • Baden-Württemberg und Hessen kooperieren bei Cybersicherheit – 30/8/2021
  • EU Commission Answer to a written question – Internet censorship in the German State Media Treaty – E-003069/2021(ASW) – 18/8/2021
– HUNGARY
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Hungarian Media Authority Regulation’s censorship of LGBTI-friendly ad – E-003192/2021(ASW)
# STAKEHOLDERS
– EDRI
  • Who, What, Why? Your guide to all things ECI! #ReclaimYourFace
  • EDRi: Romani rights and biometric mass surveillance – 18/8/2021
– CORPORATE EUROPE OBSERVATORY
  • The lobby network: Big Tech’s web of influence in the EU – Corporate Europe Observatory – 31/8/2021
# COMPANIES
– MICROSOFT
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Microsoft and the protection of European customers’ data – 30/8/2021
– ALPHABET
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Google Android case – assessment of Google’s compliance with the Commission decision of July 2018 – 17/8/2021
– FACEBOOK
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Investigation of Facebook over a leak of data of EU citizens – 11/8/2021
– TIKTOK
  • EU Commission: Answer to a written question – Follow‑up on TikTok – 27/8/2021
# OTHER COUNTRIES
– UK
  • The UK Government’s new International Data Transfers Expert Council – 26/8/2021
– USA
  • U.S. FinCEN to Host Innovation Hours Program Workshop on Digital Identity Services and Technologies
  • NIST: Ransomware Virtual Workshop Webcast and Presentations Are Available – 19/8/2021

 

 

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