CCIA Applauds Senate For Introducing Updated Privacy Standards For Electronic Communications and Geolocation Information

News & Events, Privacy & Security

Washington — Senators Lee and Leahy have introduced legislation that would offer email and geolocation information comprehensive privacy protections consistent with users’ present-day expectations. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was originally written in 1986 before most individuals’ communications were stored online. The ECPA Modernization Act of 2017 introduced Thursday would update ECPA to clearly…

Advocate General at the EU Court of Justice Issues Opinion In Coty Germany Case on Online Marketplace Bans

News & Events

Brussels, BELGIUM — Advocate General Nils Wahl delivered his opinion in the Coty Germany case (Case C-230/16). The case deals with contractual provisions a producer of luxury cosmetics imposed on his authorized retailer, prohibiting the latter the sale of products on open online marketplaces. The key question pending in front of the Court of Justice…

CCIA Warns Against State Department’s Reported Plans to Shut Down Cyber Office Amid Growing Hacking Threats

News & Events

Washington — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced plans to shut down the State Department’s cyber office, which coordinates with other countries on issues ranging from international hacking to cybersecurity. The Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues will be folded into Department’s economic bureau and its head will no longer report to the Secretary…

EC Issues Record Fine In Google Shopping Case; CCIA Concerned About Chilling Effect On Innovation

Competition

Brussels, BELGIUM — The European Commission announced a record fine today. Its antitrust investigation began seven years ago after some online price comparison sites complained Google favored its own service in search results. Today the Commission decided that the prominent placement of Google’s own comparison shopping service in search results constitutes abuse of a dominant…

Join CCIA Europe for a briefing following the EC’s Google Antitrust Announcement

News & Events

The European Commission announced a record fine after a 7 year investigation comparing Google and some online shopping competitors. For more than four decades, the Computer & Communications Industry Association has vigorously supported enforcement of antitrust laws when dynamic markets, consumers or innovation was being harmed. Tech companies are watching to gage whether it is…