Some personal news: I’ll move back home in April to join POLITICO’s Paris office, where I will still cover tech (but not only). I’m still around until end March + writing Morning Tech in the coming months so don’t be a stranger!
#Copyright
- The copyright mandate is REJECTED in the European Parliament with 278 votes in favor, 318 against and 31 abstentions. Next step : the September plenary.
Hello Luxembourg, I’m at the CJEU for the Facebook vs
@maxschrems
hearing on transatlantic data flows
#SCC
. I’ll try to live tweet as much as possible.
#EUdataP
Narrateur: Rappel, il y avait *73* députés présents sur 577 pour voter un texte sur la vidéosurveillance algorithmique décrit par la CNIL comme un "tournant" pour la société française.
Assemblée : un député de la majorité co-signe un amendement avec le RN, la Nupes hurle au scandale
«C'est un amendement technique qui n'a aucune dimension politique», évacue-t-on au MoDem
par
@Le_Figaro
The French government suggests changing the EU’s so-called primary law — which includes founding treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights — to allow data retention, according to internal documents seen by POLITICO.
Hello from Luxembourg. The YouTube hearing at the Court of Justice of the EU will start shortly (and I'll live tweet as much as possible). Here's some context 🔽
German government is making a statement on
#copyright
(which is lasting forever). The minister is basically going through the whole directive and I'm like, dude this ship has sailed.
It’s Christmas Day for nerds! Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton will present around 3 pm today the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act.
France launches new tools to allow users, regulators and authorities to review and track changes of online platforms’ terms of services (including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix and many more)
#Copyright
: Google won't sign licensing agreement with press publishers in France. The company's announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of obtaining more money from the search giant.
#Copyright
- The German justice minister has agreed to receive a petition against article 13 signed by 4.5 million people, according to the petition's initiators
#Article13
is not defeated yet and whether Germany will vote for it in Council is crucial! The petition against
#Uploadfilters
is about to become the largest online petition ever and German justice minister
@katarinabarley
has agreed to receive it!
Less than a year after the Commission put forward the proposals.
Digital Markets Act: European Parliament ✅ Council ✅
Digital Services Act: Council ✅
Mind: blown
It was too good to be true: European Commission drops considerations for temporary facial recognition ban in latest AI white paper draft, dated January 21.
@GrablyR
Est-ce que ce n’est pas aussi sa réputation d’opposition aux syndicats et la façon dont il a traité les employés tesla pendant le Covid qui interroge ?
One year from now, France will deploy large-scale, real-time, algorithm-supported video surveillance cameras for the 2024 Summer Olympics — a first in Europe.
That's the culmination of more than two centuries of increased surveillance of French citizens. 🧵
I love that I can connect directly with you through Instagram and Facebook, but I can’t sit by and stay silent while these platforms continue to allow the spreading of hate, propaganda and misinformation - created by groups to sow division and split America apart
Today is the Commission’s big digital day! Ursula von der Leyen, Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton will present around midday a communication on shaping Europe’s digital future, a data strategy and a White Paper on artificial intelligence.
Tomorrow, Ursula von der Leyen in person will give a press statement on the Commission’s digital strategy. The EU executive body obviously takes it very seriously.
The European Commission tech policy recommendations for the next 5 years:
-A regulatory framework for AI
-A policy blueprint for digital strategic autonomy
-A legislation for data sharing in the private sector
-The (already famous) Digital Services Act
3 take-aways from the conference in support to Ukraine:
- Troops on the ground "should not be excluded," although no consensus now
- Ninth capability coalition on deep strikes (medium- and long-range missiles)
- France open to the Czech plan to buy ammo abroad
MEP Tiemo
@woelken
: "If we add
#uploadfilters
in the Digital Services Act, we will face backlash from people who took to the street during the
#copyright
reform."
The European Commission's tech agenda until December.
November 10: Data Act
November 23: Transparency in paid political advertising
December 1: Legislation on child sexual abuse online
December 14: Sustainable products
Today is a big day: We now know what Google, Facebook, Amazon and al. want from the Digital Services Act. Some takeaways from Edima's position paper on "responsibility online" 🔽
#ARCEP
| La
#ComAfEcoS
énat et la
@AN_AfEco
ont donné un avis favorable à la nomination de Laure DE LA RAUDIÈRE comme présidente de l’Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de presse par 38 voix pour et 2 voix contre.
France: Let's not wait for a final Digital Services Act agreement and add the main obligations in national law by the summer.
Germany: Let's have a national pre-Digital Markets Act because why not.
Europe: 😑
Since the news is already out... I will be Politico Europe's new tech reporter, starting November 5, after two and a half great years at Contexte. (Tech) journalists out there, you can apply here to replace me (en français s'il vous plaît)
Remember Qwant? Here’s how the disgraced co-founder of France’s answer to Google moved into the murky world of cybersurveillance. Top investigation by
@ElisaBraun
and
@JulesDrmnn
French public broadcaster cuts ties with Facebook, Google logins. (The conversation around tech giants' logins is gaining traction in Brussels, as the Commission floated revision of eIDAS regulation)
Wow,
@Francetele
romp les accès utilisateur via Google et Facebook pour raisons de confidentialité 😮 Tant pis pour la facilité si c’est pour le bien de l’utilisateur : nice move!
The official version of the
#copyright
trilogue agreement is online now, translations will follow shortly. Don’t get a heart attack when you see
#Article13
has been renumbered
#Article17
, both the old and the new numbers will show up on MEPs’ voting lists.
The decision to strike down most of France's hate speech law could have an impact on the Digital Services Act. It poses clear limits on what France can lobby for at EU level and provides guidance on what is (un)acceptable in terms of content moderation.
Back to school! My beat for the new school year is:
#ePrivacy
, content moderation, platform liability, online advertising, fake news, the audiovisual sector, copyright and sustainability in tech. Email address is still lkayali
@politico
.eu.
#Copyright
: Nice overview of the state of play of the copyright reform’s transposition in France, Germany, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Spain and the U.K.
Ok, so I take one day off and the DSA leaks + there’s an agreement on terrorist content after 2.5 years 😒 Expecting a Council
#ePrivacy
deal any minute now.
"We don’t pay publishers when people click on their links in a search result," said Richard Gingras. Instead, Google will change the way articles appear in search results and remove snippets in France. Story here:
France, Italy mull rival to Germany’s Sky Shield air defense initiative.
They will develop the next-gen SAMP/T faster "to meet the needs of our European partners for tougher protection of their skies, using European equipment,” Sébastien Lecornu said.
With
@jack
Dorsey, CEO of
@Twitter
, we agreed that we should focus on how harmful content is distributed and shown to people rather than pushing for its removal.
Plurality of debate and ability of people to understand what and why they see it is a priority.
Juso-Chef
@KuehniKev
will den anstehenden SPD-Parteikonvent über
#Uploadfilter
abstimmen lassen. Er setzt darauf, die von der Bundesregierung bereits gebilligte Version der europäischen Urheberrechtsreform noch zu kippen.
German government is making a statement on
#copyright
(which is lasting forever). The minister is basically going through the whole directive and I'm like, dude this ship has sailed.
#Copyright
directive published on the Official Journal of the EU
- Entry into force in 20 days
- Transposition by June 2021
- Commission review by June 2026
Voilà, all the Digital Markets Act rapporteurs are named
IMCO: Andreas Schwab (EPP)
ECON: Stéphanie Yon-Courtin(Renew)
ITRE: Carlos Zorrinho (S&D)
CULT: Petra Kammerevert (S&D)
JURI: Tiemo Wölken(S&D)
LIBE: Ondřej Kovarik (Renew)
TRAN: Markus Ferber(EPP)
The
#copyright
directive is ADOPTED by the European Parliament with 438 votes in favor, 226 against and 39 abstentions. Publishers rights and platform liability for copyrighted content are in the text.
@Poulin2012
Elle a évidemment le soutien des chefs d’état et de gouvernement, sinon elle ne l’annoncerait pas. Les sanctions doivent par ailleurs être adoptées à l’unanimité par les États membres. Je ne peux pas croire que vous ne le sachiez pas 🙂
We still don't know who the next U.S. president will be but the German EU presidency blessed the EU tech bubble with a new text on
#ePrivacy
+ a new text on terrorist content.
🚨New: Slovenia has sent EU countries its final version of the Digital Services Act, the EU’s content moderation rules.
Next up: coreper meeting on Weds. and EU ministers on Nov. 25
Former MEP Julia Reda on France's
#copyright
transposition: "The audacity with which the proposed French law ignores the safeguards included in the EU copyright directive to protect user rights should be baffling even to the most cynical commentator."
Margrethe Vestager: With the Digital Services Act, platforms will have to tell users how their recommender systems decide which content to show and give more information about the online ads that we’re seeing.