Spanish authorities will assess whether the alleged practices violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the ePrivacy Directive, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Hosted by the National Internet Exchange of India, the hybrid forum will bring the global community together to review and advance policy and technical work. Participants planning to attend onsite must register by 6 March 2026, and the full schedule will be published on 9 February 2026.
ICANN has released a new step-by-step guide to help users submit DNS Abuse complaints more effectively. The document explains how to identify whether an issue involves phishing, malware, botnets, pharming or spam used to deliver these abuses, and outlines how to determine the correct party to contact - typically the registrar or registry operator responsible for the domain.
Europe is intensifying its drive for digital independence as France and Germany introduce a joint roadmap focused on regulatory simplification, data sovereignty, fairer digital markets, and frontier AI. The Berlin summit also launched the European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty (ETRS), a new expert coalition aimed at reducing reliance on foreign technologies.
The proposal introduces updates to the PDP and GGP Manuals to address a procedural gap, highlighted during the New gTLD Subsequent Procedures process when the Board needed to revisit an adopted recommendation without a formal path to do so.
The European Commission’s newly unveiled 'Digital Omnibus' reform package has drawn strong backlash from civil-society groups and data-protection advocates, who warn that the proposals risk undermining the stringent privacy standards established by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other EU digital laws.
Based on qualitative research with 45 teens and parents, the study finds that several common policy proposals - including age-verification mandates, strict screen-time controls, parental access tools, and chronological feeds — often conflict with users’ privacy concerns, preferences, and daily realities.
The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) has submitted evidence to the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, detailing how artificial intelligence and digital technologies are reshaping risks for women, girls, and gender-diverse people
According to CEO Matthew Prince, the update generated a malformed feature file that exceeded a hard limit in the company’s routing software, forcing systems to crash worldwide.
According to the two groups, the Commission’s intention to delay enforcement of high-risk AI requirements under the AI Act is a pragmatic move, allowing additional time for authorities and industry to finalise harmonised standards. However, they argue that the Digital Omnibus stops short of addressing the most significant structural inefficiencies in EU digital policymaking.
Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) is a project co-funded by the European Union.
