EU Stories for 2018

EU Offers Big Bug Bounties On 14 Open Source Software Projects 78
France Will Tax Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon In New Year 138
Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers 141
EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence 19
Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says 130
Does Google Harm Local Search Rivals? EU Antitrust Regulators Ask 61
EU Aims To Be 'Climate Neutral' By 2050 205
In an Open Letter To EU's Competition Commissioner, 14 European Shopping Comparison Services Say Google is Not Making the Search For Products Fairer 113
Google News May Shut in Some Countries Over EU Plans To Charge Tax For Links 134
FCC Paves the Way For Improved GPS Accuracy 78
Mark Zuckerberg 'Not Able' To Attend International Disinformation Hearing 80
Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules 107
YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible 142
Can Facebook Keep Large-Scale Misinformation From the Free World? 189
VW Plans A $ 22K Electric Car To Compete With Tesla, Transition From Combustion Engines 317
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Three European Countries Block Tax On Tech Giants 56
Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers 102
Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants 275
Google App Suite Costs as Much as $40 Per Phone Under New EU Android Deal 120
EU Ruling: Self-Driving Car Data Will Be Copyrighted By the Manufacturer 69
Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case 52
International Energy Agency Predicts Wind Will Dominate Europe's Grid By 2027 69
Equifax Slapped With UK's Maximum Penalty Over 2017 Data Breach 66
Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS 134
EU's Antitrust Commissioner Opens Preliminary Probe into Amazon 43
VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe 151
EU Drops Court Case After Apple Repays More Than $16 Billion In Taxes and Interest To Ireland 118
EU To Stop Changing the Clocks in October 2019 211
Man Jailed For Hundreds of Fake TripAdvisor Reviews 59
The Man Behind the EU's Copyright Law is 'Surprised' By What's in the Proposal 117
European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling For An International Ban On Killer Robots 115
The EU Can Still Be Saved From Its Internet-Wrecking Copyright Plan 87
EU To Give Internet Firms 1 Hour To Remove Extremist Content 238
European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws 491
The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow 215
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals 123
Wikimedia Warns EU Copyright Reform Threatens the 'Vibrant Free Web' 62
EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time 260
EU Accepts Resolution Abolishing Planned Obsolescence, Making Devices Easier to Repair 342
Theme Park Deploys Trained Crows To Collect Litter 181
Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules 154
EU Regulators To Study Need For Action on Common Mobile Phone Charger 230
European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops 100
German State Plans To Migrate 13,000 Workstations From Linux to Windows 325
EU Slaps $130 Million Fine on Four Electronics Firms For Fixing Online Prices 108
Google Warns Android Might Not Remain Free Because of EU Decision 280
EU Regulators Fine Google Record $5 Billion in Android Case 468
The EU Would Very Much Like Airbnb To Know That the Rules Are Different in Europe 105
Google May Have To Make Major Changes To Android in Response To a Forthcoming Fine in Europe 274
EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time 254
The EU's Controversial Copyright Law Has Been Rejected -- For Now 70
Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees 352
Wikipedia Italy Blocks All Articles in Protest of EU's Ruinous Copyright Proposals 80
How the EU Copyright Proposal Will Hurt the Web and Wikipedia 122
EU Takes First Step in Passing Controversial Copyright Law That Could 'Censor the Internet' 235
Kaspersky Halts Europol Partnership After Controversial EU Parliament Vote 104
Volkswagen Fined One Billion Euros By German Prosecutors Over Emissions Cheating 116
Internet Luminaries Urge EU To Kill Off Automated Copyright Filter Proposal 40
Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines 230
Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More 628
European Lawmakers Asked Mark Zuckerberg Why They Shouldn't Break Up Facebook 220
Yelp Files New EU Complaint Against Google Over Search Dominance 71
Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal 900
New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance 553
Email Unsubscription Service Unroll.me To Close To EU Users Saying it Can't Comply With GDPR 76
Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? 215
EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides 130
WhatsApp Raises Minimum Age In Europe To 16 Ahead of Data Law Change 39
EU Opens Competition Probe Into Apple's Bid For Music App Shazam 21
Facebook Starts Its Facial Recognition Push To Europeans 42
Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law 95
Google Seeks To Limit 'Right To Be Forgotten' By Claiming It's Journalistic 203
Facebook CEO Says Not Planning To Extend European Privacy Law Globally 84
EU's Long-Promised Digital Media Portability Rules Go Into Effect 35
European Commission Says It Will Cancel All 300,000 UK-Owned .EU Domains 461
Facebook Under Pressure as EU, US Urge Probes of Data Practices 68
EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) 110
Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? 322
Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users After Outrageous Court Ruling 265
Europe Plans Special Tax For Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon 253
Frequency Deviations In Continental Europe Are Causing Electric Clocks To Run Behind By 5 Minutes 251
EU Warns Tech Giants To Remove Terror Content in 1 Hour -- or Else 153
Google Releases Info On 2.4 Million 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests 69
We Will Regulate Bitcoin if Risks Are Not Tackled, EU Finance Head Says 143
Daylight Saving Time Isn't Worth It, European Parliament Members Say 425
Finland Will Introduce a Mobile 'Driver's License' App 61
WHATIS Going To Happen To WHOIS? 66
EU Fines Qualcomm $1.2 Billion for Paying Apple To Use Its Microchips 112
City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software 255
Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? 534
Bitcoin Debit Cards Suspended After Upstream Visa Rules Infraction 76