Europe

Europe to Get Cybercrime Alert System

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:02:31 -0800

Telecoms Told to End Broadband Monopoly

Holiday Shapiro — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:56:21 -0700

Throttle the Package: Europe's Fight for Net Neutrality

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:26:08 -0700

EU to Introduce New Music Rights System Despite Lobby

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:28:46 -0700

Citynet Dynamics in Europe - The State of Municipal Fiber to the Home

Stevie Converse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:21:22 -0700

Danny Goderis, (f)Product Marketing Director, Fixed Access Division (currently Bell Labs Location Leader, Belgium), Alcatel-Lucent and Peter Vanderbeke, FTTU Business Development Manager Vertical Markets Segment, Alcatel-Lucent

Google Blurs the Privacy Issue

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:07:45 -0700

Google is hoping to avoid a fight with European privacy campaigners as it prepares to launch its controversial Street View service this side of the Atlantic later in the year, by introducing new technology that blurs the faces of people its cameras inadvertently snap while scanning the streets.

Europe on the Way to a High-Speed Internet Economy

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 14 May 2008 07:22:02 -0700

40% of Europeans do not use the internet and are not benefiting from the socio-economic opportunities offered by the internet revolution. This we must correct and do so soon said Commissioner Reading in a recent speech.

Risks Faced by Journalists in Europe

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:20:37 -0700

On World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2008, Reporters Without Borders published for the first time an investigation into violence against journalists within several countries of the European Union (EU).

EU Groups: Data Retention Policies Violate Rights Convention

Holiday Shapiro — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:06:19 -0700

A group of 43 European civil liberties groups today filed a brief with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg that argues for overturning a 2006 EU directive mandating data retention policies across EU countries. The groups assert that the directive is illegal, but more importantly that the directive interferes with basic human rights granted to all Europeans.

EU Wants to Slash Search Data Retention Period to Six Months

Holiday Shapiro — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:26:00 -0700

The Article 29 Working Group, a collection of the EU's top minds on data protection and privacy issues, has issued a major report (PDF) of its findings, and it won't be good news to the search engine community.

Council of Europe: Internet Filtering Needs Strong Limits

Stevie Converse — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:38:13 -0700

With Internet filtering of all kinds becoming such big news (and such big business), especially in Europe, it's no surprise that a body like the Council of Europe would eventually weigh in with a set of filtering "best practices."

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miconato — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:52:00 -0700

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Print Media and Elections

Scott Griffith — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:54:00 -0800

My own preference - like another participant's regarding the 2008 elections - is also for a 'dialogue of ideas', at least in the print media, which are probably more suitable than broadcast media for that level of seriousness.

Cell Phones: England vs. The US

Brendan Ballou — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:07:00 -0700

I just moved to England for the year, and so I decided it was time to get a new cell phone. Back in the States I had a RAZR phone on the T-mobile network. I didn't like the phone that much - the buttons were hard to use and the interface was confusing, but being a student I didn't want to shell out $200-$400 for something cooler, so I decided to get a European SIM card. But here's the problem - when I went to the Phones4U store, they told me they couldn't give me a card. My phone had been 'locked' to the US T-Mobile network, and nothing short of some serious hacking was going to free it.