The European Commission adopted the delegated act regulating the auditing of algorithms under the DSA last month. We discussed the challenges in this field and possible implications in terms of technical standards and interlinks with the AI Act with Catalina Goanta, an associate professor at Utrecht University, and Jurriaan Parie, director at Algorithm Audit.
The re-explosion of the Middle East's conflict has brought a flood of illegal and harmful content across the web. We discussed how this crisis is, for the first time, testing the Digital Services Act, the EU's content moderation rulebook, with Rose Jackson, Director of the Democracy and Tech Initiative of the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.
After several months of controversial delays, Luca Tagliaretti was recently appointed the new Executive Director at EU Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). We discuss with him the prospect of this EU body, its role in Europe’s security posture and the overall state of cybersecurity in the Union.
The negotiations on the AI Act are at a critical stage, with important chapters such as foundation models, governance, and law enforcement still on the table. We caught up with Brando Benifei, one of the lawmakers spearheading the file, to discuss the current state of the negotiations and possible landing zones.
EU policymakers are hashing out their approach to open source software in the Cyber Resilience Act. We discussed how this regulation would affect the open source software community with Bert Hubert, an IT developer and tech entrepreneur.
EU policymakers' understanding of this area's metaverse and regulatory needs has been developing in several initiatives. We took stock of the EU institutions' thinking and current market trends with Anselm Kuesters, head of division at the Centre for European Policy, and Patrick Grady, tech lead at Fourtold.
This week, Max Schrems, an Austrian lawyer and activist who launched the not-for-profit organisation NYOB, standing for None-of-Your-Business, joins Euractiv Tech brief podcast to talk about the European Union - United States Data Privacy Framework , the new transatlantic agreement allowing EU data to be transferred to the US. Schrems has been known for filing multiple lawsuits which bear his name. The cases Schrems I and Schrems II are well known for anyone working in the sphere of data privacy...
The second episode of the two-part podcast series aims to shed light on the dynamics between the European and the American approach. In a discussion with Heike Hagemeier, an expert at the German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, and Andrea Garcia Rodriguez, Lead Digital Policy Analyst for the EU Digital Agenda at the European Policy Centre (EPC), we talk about policy recommendations and the possibility of sandboxes.
Slovaks voted last Saturday on 30 September, but criticism abounded over the extensive abuse of political disinformation across online platforms – just as the Digital Services Act (DSA), the legislation tackling illegal content online, entered into force across the EU bloc. With this in mind, David Wheeldon, Head of Public Policy in Europe for YouTube and Katarína Klingová, Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Democracy & Resilience at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute are joining us to discu...
The first episode of the two-part podcast series focusses on the EU’s preparedness for post-quantum encryption. With Heike Hagemeier, an expert at the German Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, and Andrea Garcia Rodriguez, Lead Digital Policy Analyst for the EU Digital Agenda at the European Policy Centre (EPC), we look at the state of affairs at EU and German level.
This week, the EuractivTech Brief podcast looks at the EU law on telecom infrastructures: the Gigabit Infrastructure Act. To find out how the legislation went from an European Commission proposal, amending the 2014 Broadband Cost Reduction Directive, to a Parliament's position on 19 September, and take a look at the upcoming interinstitutional negotiations with the Council of the EU, we spoke with Mr Alin Mituța, Member of the European Parliament and rapporteur of the text.
With Raffaele Zallone, expert on data privacy law, IT contracts, ecommerce, and Internet law and regulation and Thomas Duhr, vice-president of the German Digital Economy Association (BVDW), we discussed the effectiveness of the GDPR enforcement on national level and how the newly adopted German National Data Strategy plays into that. By having a closer look at the automotive industry, we discuss digital uncertainties that are not covered by the EU's data protection regime.
This week's Euractiv’s Tech Brief Podcast looks at the specific business model of tower companies and their potential regulation under a new EU legislation: the Gigabit Infrastructure Act.
Germany's implementation of the EU's flagship cybersecurity legislation, NIS-2 will be fully integrated into national law by 17 October 2024. We caught up with Steven Heckler, Deputy Head of Department for Digitalisation and Innovation at BDI (Federal Association of German Industry) to talk about the positive and negative effects of the NIS-2 directive on Germany and about recommendations to ensure the necessary level of cybersecurity.
The proposed regulation aiming to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) would make it a requirement for digital platforms in the EU to detect and report such material. The draft law is dividing people into either thinking it is about child protection or a violation of users’ privacy. We discuss the topic with MEP Paul Tang, who is one of the shadow rapporteurs for the file, and Emily Slifer, Director of Policy at Thorn, an NGO which was co-founded by actor Ashton Kutcher a...
The rise of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Midjourney AI, able to produce incredibly realistic content, poses an unprecedented challenge to the creative sector. We discuss what this new generation of Artificial Intelligence means for this sector and human creativity more generally with Tom Chatfield, tech philosopher and author.
The European Court of Justice recently ruled on a high-profile case with far-reaching consequences for enforcement in the fields of competition and data protection. We have discussed the verdict’s implications with Cristina Caffarra, renowned competition expert, and Johnny Ryan, senior fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties.
The EU has been working on reporting obligations for private actors on actively exploited vulnerabilities and cybersecurity incidents in several legislative files while trying to establish mechanisms for sharing cyber threat intelligence, extremely sensitive information. We took stock of the different initiatives in this delicate area with Jo De Muynck, Head of Unit for Operational Cooperation at ENISA, and Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Director-General of DIGITALEUROPE.
Andrea Renda, a senior research fellow at the think tank CEPS, has worked on the EU’s AI Act since its conception, advised EU policymakers during the negotiations and is currently part of the discussions on the AI Code of Conduct in the context of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council. He provides an insider view on the main challenge this landmark legislation faces, points for improvement during the trilogues and technological trends policymakers should keep in mind.
The European Parliament’s recently adopted position on the AI Act includes requirements for foundation models. Kevin Klyman and Rishi Bommasani from the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models & Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence have published a preliminary assessment of to what extent the main foundation models comply with the AI rules. We discuss with them the main findings of their research, what provisions would be most challenging for AI developers to comply...
A few weeks ago, the UN Secretary General proposed as part of its input on the Global Digital Compact to set up a one-stop-shop that would have radical implications for the current internet governance. We discuss the potential implications of the proposal and the ongoing discussions on the politicisation of the internet with Vittorio Bertola, Head of Policy & Innovation at Open-Xchange, and Lise Fuhr, Director General for European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO)....
The platform work directive is due to reach Labour ministers next Monday 12 June in the hope to agree a common position among member states – after months of a stalemate. We talk about the potential impacts of the bill on platforms with Andrew Byrne, Uber's Global Head of Public Policy.
Putting European data outside the reach of foreign jurisdictions has been a recurring theme for EU policymakers, with some initiatives criticised for protectionism. We discuss what Europe’s strive for digital sovereignty means for the cloud market and the possible solutions currently available with Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President for EMEA at VMware.
The UK is discussing a data protection reform that would distance its regime from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meanwhile, the US has been working on an alternative standard for international data flows. We discuss these developments and how GDPR enforcement trends are influencing the global conversation on data protection with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Vice President for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Rafi Azim-Khan, Head of Data Privacy at Pillsbury Law...
The discussion around AI and its impact on society has accelerated following the release of ChatGPT. But what is really new about these AI models? What the societal problems they could lead to and how can they be mitigated? We try to go beyond the hype with Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation.
Andrea Jelinek has been the first Chair of the European Data Protection Board since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation came to life. We discussed with her the first five years of GDPR enforcement, the progress that still needs to be done in terms harmonisation and the data protection challenge posed by disruptive Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT.
Last week, the EU Commission presented a proposal for a Cyber Solidarity Act. We discuss the draft law and how it fits within the European cybersecurity strategy with Iva Tasheva, cybersecurity lead at CYEN, and Francesco Bordone, manager for cybersecurity policies at the European Cyber Security Organisation.
With continuous technological developments, companies seeking to jump on the digitalisation train increasingly face a talent shortage for data-related skills. We discuss how this trend is playing out in Germany with Jan Büchel, an economist at the German Economic Institute who recently researched the demand for data skills in German companies by analysing online job advertisements....
Behind great Artificial Intelligence, there is great computing power. Computing capacity is a much under-discussed aspect of the AI race, on which we tried to shed some light with Vili Lehdonvirta, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute.
