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Article | 19/04/2013 EU teachers need more IT training, report says
The latest European Union survey of ICT in schools has found that 20 percent of secondary students have never or almost never used a computer in their...
Article | 17/12/2012 EU cybersecurity agency says variation between countries adds risk
Europe's top cybersecurity watchdog has warned that there are many problems with national or governmental Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs).
Article | 7/12/2012 Report: EU report accuses Huawei, ZTE of competing unfairly in mobile gear
Chinese networking vendors Huawei Technologies and ZTE are competing unfairly in the European mobile infrastructure market, according to an analysis b...
Article | 20/11/2012 Make search engines filter 'forgotten' data, suggests EU agency
Europe's top cyber security agency said on Tuesday that “a purely technical enforcement” of the proposed right to be forgotten is impossible.; However...
Article | 15/11/2012 Majority of popular EU websites don't ask permission to install cookies, report says
A majority of European Internet users expect companies to ask for permission to track their activities online using cookies, privacy management compan...
Article | 9/12/2011 EU foreign ministers stick up for Wikileaks
The European Union's foreign ministers issued a statement on Thursday reiterating the rights of whistleblowing websites such as Wikileaks.
Article | 4/11/2011 Simulated cyberattack unites EU and US security experts
Almost 100 computer experts from 16 European countries jointly battled to hold off serious cyberattacks on the European Union's security agencies and ...
Article | 29/10/2011 EU countries must devote 800MHz band to wireless broadband by 2013
Europe's Council of Ministers has said that all European Union countries must make the 800MHz band available for wireless broadband services by Jan. 1...
Article | 12/10/2011 New EU law to remove online sales headache
The days of European online shoppers getting the message "this product is not available in your country" could be numbered.
Article | 4/10/2011 EU wants to push telcos to ditch copper, lay fiber
Large telecommunications companies must stop using copper-network pricing as a barrier to deploying fiber networks, or Europe will not meet its broadb...
Article | 28/09/2011 Civil liberties groups slam EU data retention as unnecessary
A large group of digital rights organizations has demanded proof from the European Commission that the retention of data in the European Union is nece...
Article | 14/09/2011 EU countries must do more to protect children online
European Union states are failing to sufficiently protect children online, a new European Commission study contends.
Article | 13/09/2011 Groups to urge abolition of EU data retention directive
Civil liberties groups will gather in Brussels Saturday to call for the abolition of the European Union's data retention directive.
Article | 10/06/2011 German crime stats deal blow to EU's data retention laws
The latest statistics published by German police show that telecommunications data retention has had no positive impact on the number of cases solved.
Article | 17/05/2011 Location data is personal and private confirms EU watchdog
The European Union data protection watchdog says that geo-location constitutes private data.