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On 23 February 2022, the European Commission unveiled a proposal for an EU regulation – the data act – laying down harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data. The aim is to remove barriers to consumers and businesses' access to data, in a context in which the volume of data generated by humans and machines is increasing exponentially and becoming a critical factor for innovation by businesses (e.g. algorithm training) and by public authorities (e.g. shaping of smart cities). The proposed ...

With the current pace of technological innovation, it is clear that the volume of data being exchanged is larger than ever and will only continue growing. The EU's ambitious connectivity targets are pushing policymakers to take a more forward-thinking approach to the telecoms sector. One question EU decision-makers must answer is whether the main digital players, who generate huge volumes of traffic and revenue using the EU's telecoms infrastructure, should contribute to the cost of network roll-out ...

One of the 16 key elements of the Commission’s digital single market strategy, presented in 2015, was a legislative proposal to facilitate the free flow of non-personal data. The mid-term review of the digital single market in 2017 identified the data economy as one of the top three priority areas in the second half of the strategy’s implementation. It found the European data economy could grow 18-fold, given favourable policy and legislative conditions, representing 4 % of EU GDP by 2020. On 13 ...

In order to avoid conflict with the freedom to conduct a business and the freedom of contract the wording of article 4(1) should be amended and be addressed to the Member States; • The proposal underplays that information security has a legal dimension to it, notoriously so because member states’ national security activities operate outside the scope of EU law; • The principle aversion against locality that emanates from the proposal may not be fully aligned with state-of-the-art technology where ...

Data is not static in a personal/non-personal classification – with modern analytic methods, certain non-personal data can help to generate personal data – so the distinction may become blurred. Thus, de-anonymisation techniques with advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and manipulation of large datasets will become a major issue. In some new applications, such as smart cities and connected cars, the enormous volumes of data gathered may be used for personal information as well as for non-personal ...

This note seeks to provide an initial analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the European Commission's impact assessment (IA) accompanying the above Commission proposal (the proposal), submitted on 13 September 2017 and referred to Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO). The creation of a connected digital single market is one of the ten priorities identified by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his political guidelines for the Commission at the start ...

Si les eaux de l’Union européenne sont parmi les plus sûres du monde pour les voyageurs, les autorités de recherche et de sauvetage doivent pouvoir déterminer immédiatement le nombre de disparus en cas d’urgence. C’est pourquoi la Commission européenne a proposé de numériser l’enregistrement des passagers qui se trouvent à bord de navires opérant à destination ou au départ de ports de l’Union. Cette proposition s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un réexamen plus large de la législation de l’Union relative ...

L'informatique en nuage est un modèle de fourniture de services dans le domaine des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) par l'intermédiaire de l'internet. Cette technologie peut profiter aux entreprises, aux organismes publics et aux particuliers, en leur permettant de réduire leurs coûts, d'accéder à leurs données et à leurs applications sans restrictions géographiques et suivant un modèle flexible, et d'innover sans devoir engager des capitaux importants. L'informatique en ...

Le texte de compromis sur la proposition longuement débattue d'une directive de l'Union relative aux données PNR (données des dossiers passagers) devrait être mis aux voix lors de la période de session d'avril. Il vise à réglementer de manière uniforme le traitement et l'échange des données des dossiers passagers par les États membres dans le cadre de la lutte contre le terrorisme et les formes graves de criminalité, tout en mettant en place une série de garde-fous en matière de protection des données ...

This report summarises the presentations and discussions of the workshop on data saves lives, held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Thursday 19 November 2015. The aim of the workshop was to provide background information and advice regarding the proposed General Data Protection Regulation and the impact it may have on the use of personal health data in cancer research. During the first part of the workshop the policy context and state of play of the proposed new Regulation were presented ...