The European Commissioners are meeting today to decide the future of EU copyright policy. French Commissioner Michel Barnier is pushing for a set of control measures aimed at ISPs, web-hosts, social networking services, and related services that would force them to act as private police for the entertainment lobby, who would be able to direct them to spy on and block domains and users without judicial oversight or due process…
Antitrust regulators for the European Union’s executive body have begun probing whether Google has abused its position in the areas of search and advertising.
The investigation is in response to allegations that Google has used its dominance to discriminate against where competing services appear in search results and that Google prevents some websites from using ads by Google search competitors…
Continue reading… “European Commission Opens Antitrust Investigation Against Google”
The European Commission has recently decided to reserve, across Europe, part of the radio spectrum for smart vehicle communications systems. The decision is part of the Commission’s overall fight against road accidents and traffic jams, and the hope is that vehicles’ developers will create wireless communication technology that will allow cars to ‘talk’ to other cars and to the road infrastructure providers.
Continue reading… “EU Reserves a Frequency For Talking Cars”
