Tag «Romania»

Romania makes the first steps to implement DSA Regulation

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 …

SEEDIG 2019 Is Coming to Bucharest. Join Now, Not to Regret Afterwards…

We are thrilled to announce that this year South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG) is coming to Bucharest, Romania, on May 7-8, 2019. Why should you join SEEDIG in Bucharest? It’s simple: We are the only sub-regional initiative dedicated to open, inclusive, and informal dialogue on Internet policy and governance We specifically focus …

Intelligence sharing without effective oversight in Romania

Intelligence sharing, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (via. Wikipedia) is “the ability to exchange intelligence, information, data, or knowledge among Federal, state, local or private-sector entities as appropriate.” To this US-centric definition, Wikipedia adds “Intelligence sharing also involves intergovernmental bilateral or multilateral agreements and through international organizations. Intelligence sharing is meant to …

Romanian MEPs you’ve got mail! Over 100 postcards saying no to link tax and Internet censorship

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 …

EU Copyright Reform Directive debate with MEP Victor Negrescu

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 …