Author: Bogdan Lungu, ApTI The Council of Europe has approached the new domain of metaverse technology head on, in an attempt to grasp the phenomenon and hopefully made the first attempt to (soft) regulate it. In the draft document presented on 22 of May 2023 called “Risks and Opportunities of the metaverse” written for Council …
The DSA Regulation – or as officially known Regulation (EU) of 19 October 2023 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act) – is the new key European legislation on online intermediaries that should be fully in force by February 2024. Its implementation would be crucial for how the …
A new war on encryption is unfolding across the globe, based on an older issue (also known as crypto wars) After years of technological advancements on encryption that have made our Internet safer and our communications private and secure, we are seeing a trend that aims to undo these guarantees. Draft normative acts proposing an …
In the last month, more and more Romanian voice are gathering to send out a clear message to decision makers: We don’t want link taxes and upload filters! Besides calling and sending letters to Romanian MEPs to delete Articles 11&13 from the copyright reform proposal, EDRi member ApTI organised a series of activities to trigger …
Friday, June 23rd, ApTI along with ANBPR (The National Association of Librarians and Public Libraries of Romania) and CJI (The Center for Independent Journalism) organized a meeting about the European Commission’s Directive proposal on the copyright reform Directive. Romanian MEP Victor Negrescu took part in the event. This came in the context of the Europe-wide …