No-Three-Strikes, Yes to Net Neutrality: Distributed Campaigning and Digital Rights in the European Union

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yana Breindl
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Three Strikes

scholarly journals El Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea como juez garante de la privacidad en Internet

2017 ◽  
pp. 583
Author(s):  
Artemi Rallo Lombarte
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
It Services ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Safe Harbour ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
European Standards

El origen y evolución del derecho a la protección de datos personales tiene una inequívoca impronta europea. El impacto mundial de esta normativa originariamente europea ha supuesto la proliferación de leyes nacionales de protección de datos en el resto de los continentes y ha obligado a los servicios tecnológicos globales —independientemente de su origen geográfico— a adecuarse a la normativa europea de protección de datos. En particular, estos servicios tecnológicos han tenido que adaptarse a la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea sobre protección de la privacidad en Internet. Este artículo evidenciará el impacto global de esta jurisprudencia y la inevitable fuerza expansiva extra europea de tres renombradas sentencias recientes del TJUE: Caso Digital Rights (Directiva conservación de datos), Caso Google (derecho al olvido) y Caso Facebook (Safe Harbour). Estas sentencias marcan un hito en la evolución de la protección de los datos personales por su impacto mundial y, en consecuencia, por la expansión de los estándares europeos de protección al resto del planeta.The origin and evolution of the data protection right has a clear European leadership. The global impact of this originally European legislalion has led to the proliferation of national laws for the protection of data in the rest of the continents and has forced global technology services —regardless of their geographical origin— to adapt to European data protection standards. In particular, these IT services have been adapted to the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the privacy protection on the Internet. This article will demonstrate the extra European impact of three renowned recent judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Case Digital Rights (Data Retention Directive), Case Google (Right to be Forgotten) and Case Facebook (Safe Harbour). These rulings are a milestone in the evolution of the data protection because of its global impact and, consequently, by the transference of the European standards of data protection to the rest of the planet.

scholarly journals The Denationalization and Agencification of Net Neutrality Policy in Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Deimantas Jastramskis
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Communications Policy ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Stream Model

This paper focuses on the making of communications policy in Lithuania, specifically regarding net neutrality. The study employs a multiple stream model to analyze the conditions of the political process and the activity of political actors. The paper claims that the Lithuanian communications policy has become essentially denationalized since the country’s accession to the European Union. The issue of net neutrality policy has been framed in the context of EU policy, while the national agenda of net neutrality policy lost its significance. The denationalization of the net neutrality policy-making was harmonized with the agencification of policy formulation stage.

Ministerio Fiscal: Holding the line on ePrivacy: Case C-207/16 Ministerio Fiscal, EU:C:2018:788.

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-594
Author(s):  
Christopher Docksey
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Principle Of Proportionality

In Ministerio Fiscal the Court of Justice of the European Union has considered once again the criteria governing access by the authorities to data retained by electronic communications service providers permitted under Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58 (the ‘ePrivacy Directive’), in particular the principle of proportionality and the concept of ‘serious crime’ as developed in the recent Digital Rights and Tele2 rulings.

scholarly journals Net Neutrality: An Incyte Perspective responding to recent developments in the European Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-57
Author(s):  
David Alfred Rogerson ◽  
Pedro Seixas ◽  
James Robert Holmes
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
Investment Incentives ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Eu

The road to net neutrality within the European Union (EU) has been slow and winding.  However, a major milestone was reached in August 2016 through the publication of the BEREC Guidelines on the Implementation by National Regulators of European Net Neutrality Rules.  These Guidelines, which must be given the “utmost consideration” by national regulators, provide the EU’s first detailed and unambiguous regulatory commitment to net neutrality, and are carefully crafted to balance the needs of content providers and network operators.  This extended article explores the scope of the net neutrality principle as understood and applied in a number of jurisdictions. The approach in the EU is contrasted with the approaches of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States (US) and of a number of other countries.  Although there are some constants that recur for net neutrality in all of the countries examined, there remain a variety of specific local connotations.The article indicates that the question, “What is net neutrality?” will continue to be asked and continue to be very apposite for some time.  The EU approach, with the BEREC Guidelines, will likely be central to a more harmonised approach worldwide.It also argues that the new EU framework is likely to be even more influential than its highly publicized but politically fractious US equivalent.  The EU approach to net neutrality will find greater favour among developing countries, as it provides sufficient flexibility to offer network investment incentives whilst retaining appropriate competition and user safeguards. As with the earlier EU ex-ante regulatory frameworks for market analysis and cost-based interconnection, the BEREC paper paves the way for continued export of best practice regulation from the EU to the rest of the world.  However, there are issues that demand caution in how the BEREC approach might be implemented.The authors have extensive experience as consultants and commentators on telecommunications industry and regulatory issues in many countries.  David Rogerson and Jim Holmes are founding partners of Incyte Consulting, located in Falkirk (Scotland) and Melbourne, respectively.  Pedro Seixas is a Principal Associate of Incyte Consulting located in Frankfurt.

Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. v. Minister for Communications & Google Spain SL v. Agencia Española De Protección De Datos (C.J.E.U.)

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 889-926
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gibson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
Individual Privacy ◽  
First Case ◽  
Surveillance Programs ◽  
Grand Chamber

In April and May of 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), sitting as a Grand Chamber, issued two preliminary rulings with dramatic implications for internet privacy—a topic of increasing global concern following Edward Snowden’s leaks on the data surveillance programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its allies. The first case, Digital Rights Ireland Ltd. v. Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and others joined with Kärtner Landesregierung and others, found an unacceptable interference in the rights to privacy and data protection in a European Union directive that required private telecom and internet companies to retain records of user activity and to make those records available for use by law enforcement. The second case, Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos and Mario Costeja González, recognized that there are situations where an internet search engine, such as Google, could be ordered to erase links from search results to protect individual privacy. While these two cases have dramatically different policy implications, both demonstrate Europe’s efforts to apply human rights to modern technology and to reconcile security, freedom of information, and privacy.

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