An Austrian privacy activist with a track record of derailing the legal framework underpinning of commercial trans-Atlantic data flows is suggesting he will try again following a key move by the European Commission to formally accept a compromise framework unveiled earlier this fall. The European Commission adopted on Dec. 13 a draft adequacy decision paving […]
More than 90% of Europeans are concerned about mobile apps collecting their data without their consent. Today, an important step was taken to finalize EU data protection rules to help restore that confidence. Ministers in the Council reached a General Approach on the new data protection rules, confirming the approach taken in the Commission’s proposal […]
Last year, the European commission launched a ten-year, $1.6 billion project to create a supercomputer simulation of the human brain, dubbed the Human Brain Project. The scientists lay out their concerns in an open letter, taking issue with the projects overly narrow approach, leading to a significant risk that it would fail to meet its […]
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