France, Germany, Poland facing ‘permanent’ Russian disinformation attacks: EU on 05/06/24
France, Germany and Poland have become "permanent" targets for Russian disinformation attacks in the run-up to European Parliament elections this week, a senior EU official said Tuesday (4 June). The Brief – EU elections are a major stress test for digital rulebook on 04/06/24
The upcoming EU elections will be a major stress test for the bloc's digital rulebook, and particularly the Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark content moderation law. EU countries may soon push for human rights and tech standards focus group in ITU on 04/06/24
Some EU countries are looking to start a focus group on human rights and artificial intelligence (AI) under the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) umbrella, Bilel Jamoussi, who leads these groups at the international organisation, told Euractiv. Sweden wants to let police use facial recognition technology on 04/06/24
Sweden's government said Monday (3 June) that it wanted to give law enforcement the ability to use real-time facial recognition technology from cameras in public places, for example to identify people suspected of certain crimes. TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote, study shows on 04/06/24
Wildly popular social network TikTok approved adverts containing political disinformation ahead of European polls, a report showed Tuesday (4 June), flouting its own guidelines and raising questions about its ability to detect election falsehoods. EU’s Stratcom struggles to counter Russian election disinformation on 04/06/24
The European Union's disinformation-busting team last month debunked a Russian-language video on YouTube that said citizens were fleeing dictatorship in EU member Poland and seeking refuge in Belarus, a close ally of Moscow. New tech coalition CODE is growing a digital ecosystem to boost EU growth [Advocacy Lab Content] on 04/06/24
The Coalition for Open Digital Ecosystems (CODE), recently held its first public event in Brussels, with Qualcomm and Meta headlining. The technology coalition is emerging as a serious new stakeholder in the Brussels digital, tech, and competition policy space. Germany’s Christian Democratic party hit by ‘serious’ cyberattack on 02/06/24
Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the country's leading opposition party, has been hit by a major cyberattack and has taken parts of its IT-infrastructure off the grid as a precautionary measure, authorities said on Saturday (1 June). Poland sees ‘Russian cyberattack’ behind fake military draft report on 01/06/24
The Polish government said Friday (31 May) that a false story stating that Poles would be mobilised to fight in Ukraine that appeared on the state news agency was likely a Russian cyberattack. DG CNECT reorganising, child sexual abuse draft law might make progress on 31/05/24
This week, DG CNECT announced its restructuring for the AI Office, while the file on fighting online child sexual abuse material finally seemed to make some headway.
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