The EU has fixed a flaw in the powerful yet complex eIDAS digital identification system that let people authenticate as someone else.
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Social media platforms can be forced to delete illegal content worldwide
The EU’s top court ruled that platforms like Facebook can be ordered to proactively seek out and delete all copies of illegal content.
Will the EU’s new copyright directive ruin the web?
Articles 11 and 13 live on, with the dreaded ‘link tax’, ‘meme killer’, ‘censorship machine’ and all.
Pirates! Don’t blame your illegal file sharing on family members
Stop blaming your piracy on your mum. You can no longer avoid liability by saying that a family member had access to your connection.
Social networks to be fined for hosting terrorist content
Draft EU legislation, due out next month, will likely incorporate a one-hour takedown window for extremist content flagged by law enforcement.
Google hit with $5.1b fine in EU’s Android antitrust case
This could mean the end of free Android. In the meantime, Google plans to appeal.
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 