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Google Received 12000 “Forget” Requests On The First Day Of The Service

A recent change in EU law meant Google was forced to examine and process requests from European citizens who want to be removed from the Google search engine directories. On ...

June 1, 2014 at 10:45 am by

European Parliament Votes To Scrap Roaming Fees In EU

Here in Europe we are struck with high mobile phone call charges, extortionate data rates and more while roaming. With smartphones churning through more data than ever thanks ...

April 4, 2014 at 8:32 am by

68% of Europeans Stream Films For Free, Legal Choices Expensive And Narrow

A study published by the European Commission investigating the film downloading habits of European citizens has revealed some interesting results. The headline finding is that ...

February 16, 2014 at 1:21 pm by

Germany and France Looking To Create NSA-Free European Communications Networks

According to the German Chancellor’s weekly podcast she will be working with France to develop a European Communications Network that bypasses any American-based nodes ...

February 16, 2014 at 12:57 pm by

Google Refuses To Pay French Privacy Fine, Has To Admit Guilt On Google France

Google recently lost a legal dispute in France for failing to tell French citizens exactly what happens to the personal data that Google collects about them. As a result ...

February 8, 2014 at 11:45 pm by

New EU Law Calls For Mobile Phone Chargers To Be Standardised

An agreement between MEPs and the Council of the European Union have agreed that mobile phone manufacturers will be obliged to provide a common battery charger across Europe ...

December 22, 2013 at 11:37 am by

European Parliament Exploring The Decriminalisation Of Individual File Sharing

TorrentFreak reports that several members of the European Parliament have started a coordinated platform to urge the European Commission to update its outdated policy on ...

November 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm by

American Network Carrier AT&T Considering European Expansion

The Wall Street Journal reports that the American network carrier AT&T is seeking to expand into Europe in the near future. AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson said ...

September 25, 2013 at 2:20 pm by

Group Of ISPs Contest Legality Of EU Pirate Bay Ban

TorrentFreak reports that a group of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the Netherlands are taking the decision to block the Pirate Bay in their country to court. They claim ...

September 20, 2013 at 8:01 am by

Microsoft Moves Cloud Hosting To EU For New Office 365 Member

Microsoft has just teamed up with the corporation Capita to offer them the Office 365 service according to the Channel. The deal will see Microsoft host all employee emails ...

August 18, 2013 at 4:27 pm by

Germany Terminates Surveillance Deal With USA Over NSA Spying Scandal

The German Foreign Office has taken a rather dramatic political move and terminated a surveillance pact that it had signed with the USA, the UK and France back in the Cold War ...

August 4, 2013 at 2:54 pm by

71% Of European Wireless Internet Traffic Is Done Via WiFi

Despite the coverage of 3G and 4G becoming more important and discussed in Europe apparently WiFi still dominates Wireless Internet Traffic quite significantly. Of all ...

August 3, 2013 at 10:54 am by

Spain Offers Apology For Bolivia/Snowden Flight Blocking Incident

It has now been about two weeks since the Bolivian jet incident occurred. To cut a long story short, Spain, France, Portugal and Italy blocked their airspace to the Bolivian ...

July 17, 2013 at 11:54 am by

The EU Raids Several ISPs Over Throttling Of Services Like YouTube

The European Commission (EC) is investigating whether several large European ISPs are abusing their position by unfairly throttling access to internet services in an attempt ...

July 14, 2013 at 3:54 pm by

Latin American Nations Withdraw Ambassadors From Europe After Jet Incident

Russia Today reports that the backlash against Europe after the Bolivian Jet incident is now growing in Latin America. After having a serious emergency meeting already four ...

July 14, 2013 at 1:54 pm by

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