Category Archives: English – posts in English on this blog

Registration of hosts providing short-term accommodation rental services and related obligations | EU

Europe is working on a proposal on a regulation on data collection and sharing relating to short-term accommodation rental services. The regulation will apply to all types of short-term letting of short-term letting of furnished accommodation, provided for remuneration, whether … Lees verder

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Unmasking of AI fantasists | AlgorithmWatch

AlgorithmWatch in this edition of its newsletter it discusses the article Learning machine learning: On the political economy of big tech’s online AI courses and comments: Both courses take a very uncritical view of Machine Learning, sometimes veering on the … Lees verder

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The man who won’t stop filing info requests until every EU doc is public | Europa

The legislation process in Europe is highly non-transparent. A former European Parliament official and lawyer, Mr. Emilio De Capitani, is campaigning on more transparency, read the EUObserver article. More transparency is not only interesting to see what the EU countries’ … Lees verder

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eHealth, eID wallet and other topics in the draft implementing decision for the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030

Until 13 March a European consultation is running regarding the Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030, that the EDICs I wrote about today are part of. The consultation is about a draft for a Commission implementing decision setting out key performance … Lees verder

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New legal entities created by the European Commission | European digital infrastructure consortia (EDICs)

Those interested in the law of legal persons will be fascinated by the new legal entities created by the European Commission. This phenomenon is to be found in Decision (EU) 2022/2481 of 14 December 2022 establishing the Digital Decade Policy … Lees verder

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PubHubs as a non-profit, open source and value-driven online environment for public organizations (and not an alternative for adtech services)

Bart Jacobs and José van Dijck wrote a position paper on ‘PubHubs’, that according to them is not an alternative for the services by adtech companies (‘social media’): PubHubs is not an alternative for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp or TikTok … Lees verder

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Hoepman and Leisegang on the European Digital Identity proposal

Jaap-Henk Hoepman published the interesting article: Analysing the Architecture of the European Digital Identity Framework. He wrote this article because more technical details on the framework are available. He mentions the following issues: Unlinkability: the European Identity (EUID) will be … Lees verder

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Crime control, digitalisation and cyberrisks of EU banks in report by the EBA

In December the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Risk Assessment Report for 2022. The report describes the main developments of and trends in the European banking sector between June 2021 and June 2022 and provides EBA’s outlook on the … Lees verder

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Safeguarding the Rule of Law in the European Union – A project by the Meijers Committee

The Meijers Committee has created the site euruleoflaw.eu and introduces the site as follows: The Meijers Committee is worried by the EU’s insufficient reaction to developments that affect the rule of law in the EU. It also observes particular risks in the … Lees verder

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Policing the crisis, policing as crisis: the problem(s) with Europol

Statewatch announced a workshop on 25 January in the article ‘Policing the crisis, policing as crisis: the problem(s) with Europol’, read the announcement. The workshop Europol: Secrecy, impunity and the rule of law (Chris Jones, Statewatch) is held during the … Lees verder

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