EU Stories for 2017

WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage 40
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings 170
EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company 139
Google's Record Fine of $2.8 Billion Was a 'Deterrent,' EU Says 71
New Satellite Experiment Helps Confirm Einstein's Equivalence Principle 71
EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content 79
Apple To Start Paying Ireland the Billions It Owes In Back Taxes 124
Shouting 'Pay Your Taxes', Activists Occupy Apple Stores in France 233
EU Lawmakers Back Exports Control on Spying Technology 35
EU Agrees To End Country-Specific Limits For Online Retailers 72
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause 45
Mozilla Might Distrust Dutch Government Certs Over 'False Keys' 112
Four Automakers Team Up To Create an Electric Car Charging Network Across Europe 62
Hilton Paid a $700K Fine For 2015 Breach; Under GDPR, It Would Be $420 Million 110
Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality 244
EU: No Encryption Backdoors But, Let's Help Each Other Crack That Crypto 83
Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 412
Dutch Police Build a Pokemon Go-Style App For Hunting Wanted Criminals 62
Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It 103
EU Takes Ireland To Court For Not Claiming Apple Tax Windfall 192
EU Gives Ultimatum To Facebook and Twitter: Obey Us Or We'll Start Regulating 335
Spain's Crackdown on Catalonia Includes Internet Censorship 363
Microsoft and Facebook Just Built a 4,000-Mile Cable Across the Pacfic Ocean 151
EU Paid For Report That Said Piracy Isn't Harmful -- And Tried To Hide Findings 169
Google Offers To Treat Rivals Equally Via Auction 28
EU Set To Demand Internet Firms Act Faster To Remove Illegal Content 60
Google Challenges Record EU Antitrust Fine in Court 52
Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon 205
An Intelligent Speed Bump Uses Non-Newtonian Liquid 143
Intel's $1.3 Billion Fine In Europe Requires Review, Court Says 72
EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows 236
European Court Rules Companies Must Tell Employees of Email Checks 103
60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb 154
Google To Comply With EU Search Demands To Avoid More Fines 50
Germany Tests Facial-Recognition Surveillance On 300 Citizens 86
UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data 120
Massive Solar Plant In the Sahara Could Help Keep the EU Powered 257
Free Movement of EU Citizens To Britain Will End in 2019 356
Luxembourg Just Passed A New Asteroid Mining Law 177
Company Gets 45,000 Bad Facebook Reviews After Teenaged Hacker's Unjust Arrest 295
EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe 182
EU Sides With RIAA, Says YouTube Underpays For Music Streaming 82
Google Spared $1.3 Billion Tax Bill With Victory In French Court 56
EU Prepares 'Right To Repair' Legislation To Fight Short Product Lifespans 190
Google May Face Another Record EU Fine, This Time Over Android 192
EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products 397
US Government Seeks To Intervene in Apple's EU Tax Appeal 75
Yelp's Six-Year Grudge Against Google 42
Large-Scale Study 'Shows Neonic Pesticides Harm Bees' 102
Ends, Means, and Antitrust 97
Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches 362
New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally 213
Germany Cracks Down On Illegal Speech On Social Media. 535
ESA Approves Gravitational-Wave Hunting Spacecraft For 2034 49
Domestic Appliances Guzzle Far More Energy Than Advertised, Says EU Survey 205
Microsoft Admits Disabling Anti-Virus Software For Windows 10 Users 208
European Parliament Committee Endorses End-To-End Encryption 120
EU Poised To Fine Google More Than $1 Billion in Antitrust Case 102
Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules 108
EU Mobile Roaming Charges Scrapped 67
Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden 253
Ex-Admin Deletes All Customer Data and Wipes Servers of Dutch Hosting Provider 215
Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament 493
EU Seeks New Powers To Obtain Data 'Directly' From Tech Firms 40
Hyperloop One Reveals Its Plans For Connecting Europe 213
Kaspersky Files Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft Over Disabling Its Antivirus Software 134
Twitter Isn't Removing Enough Hate Speech, Complains The EU 201
Google Could Face a $9 Billion EU Fine For Rigging Search Results In Its Favor 86
EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea 128
European Union Will Fund Public Wifi 65
How Facebook Praises and Pressures a Country's Leader To Get Exactly What It Wants 24
Switzerland Votes To Abandon Nuclear Power In Favor of Renewables 383
EU Passes 'Content Portability' Rules Banning Geofencing 119
EU Fines Facebook $122 Million Over Misleading Information On WhatsApp Deal 31
US and EU Reject Expanding Laptop Ban To Flights From Europe 87
European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook 53
French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change 174
German Publishers' Lawsuit Against Google May Backfire 29
US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe 435
Why Do Gas Station Prices Constantly Change? Blame the Algorithm 109
Support For a Universal Basic Income Is Inching Up In Europe 696
Le Pen Concedes Defeat To Macron In France's Post-Hack Election 671
'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack 255
EU Leader Says English Is Losing Importance 711
Amazon Will Change Its Ebook Contracts With Publishers as EU Ends Antitrust Probe 29
Chinese, European Space Agencies In Talks To Build a Moon Base 88
EU Lawmakers Include Spotify and iTunes In Geoblocking Ban 74
'No Turning Back' on Brexit as Article 50 Triggered 667
Munich's IT Lead: 'No Compelling Reason' To Switch Back To Windows From Linux 203
EU Court Sets Limit On 'Right To Be Forgotten' In Company Registers 28
Underwater Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Project Completes Its First Practical Test 238
The City of Munich Might Stick With Linux 117
EU Privacy Watchdogs Say Windows 10 Settings Still Raise Concerns 161
German Government Tells Parents: Destroy This WiFi-Connected Doll 142
Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes 388
EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal 72
Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' 60
EU Privacy Watchdogs Seek Assurances on US Data Transfer Pact 36
Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist 723
The City Of Munich Now Wants To Abandon Linux And Switch Back to Windows 557
86 Percent of New Power in Europe From Renewable Sources in 2016 194
EU Agrees To Cross-Border Access To Streaming Services 55
Valve and Game Publishers Face EU Probe For Geo-Blocking; ASUS Faces Probe For Online Price-Fixing 74
EU Announces Deal To End All Wireless Roaming Charges 113
All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals 171
Ransomware Infects a Hotel's Key System 203
UK 'Pirates' Get 20-Day Grace Period After Each Warning 35
Microsoft May Halt the Expansion of a UK Datacenter Due To Brexit 167
Apple Increases App Store Prices By 25% Following Brexit Vote 172
Switzerland Agrees To Its Own New Data Sharing Pact With the US 15
Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots 173
WhatsApp, Gmail Roped Into Tougher EU Privacy Proposal 36
Diesel Cars Produce More Toxic Emissions Than Trucks and Buses, EU Study Says 154
Uber Drivers Deemed To Be Employees By Swiss Insurance Provider 121
Work Emails After Hours Finally Banned in France 234
Germany Considers Fining Facebook $522,000 Per Fake News Item 333