America’s decision to scrap rules designed to ensure a free and open internet leaves the European Union as the biggest market where Net neutrality still prevails — but critics say the EU is not a level playing field. Consumer rights groups complain that EU regulations are being interpreted in ways that allow telecom firms and […]

There are good reasons why so few meaningful laws exist to govern the Internet. If there were an easy way to govern it, many more such laws would presumably have been implemented years ago. Cyberspace is a fast moving and ever-changing landscape that caters to criminality, and illegal and outrageous behavior. No set of laws […]

The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice’s appeal against a ruling which prevented prosecutors from gaining access to emails held by Microsoft in Ireland. The case has attracted significant attention from technology and media companies due to concerns that an […]

From the Jersey Evening Post.  

European Union privacy regulators have threatened to bring a legal challenge to a year-old EU-U.S. pact on the cross-border transfer of personal data if their concerns about its functioning and U.S. surveillance practices are not resolved by the autumn of 2018, they said in a report. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield pact was agreed last year […]

The bank was fined for breaches of laws aimed at countering money laundering. A division of Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo has been fined €1 million by the Irish Central Bank for four breaches of laws aimed at countering money laundering and terrorist financing. An investigation by the Central Bank found “significant failures in Intesa’a controls, policies and procedures […]

The European Council has unanimously agreed to extend economic sanctions targeting the Russian economy by 6 months, until 31 January 2018. The extension is a result of the failure to fully implement the Minsk Agreements. The sanctions, originally introduced in July 2014 in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, focus on the financial, energy and […]

The EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), which replaces the Market Abuse Directive, comes into force on 3 July 2016 and is directly applicable in EU Member States. MAR will have a significant impact on all UK listed (including AIM-listed) companies, considerably expanding the scope of the current regime in terms of the markets and products […]