Microsoft releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report
We released our 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report. This is our first Law Enforcement Requests Report. It provides data on the number of requests we received from law enforcement agencies around the...
View ArticleInvesting in Europe’s future: a €6 billion Youth Employment Initiative
Our labour markets, educational and training systems across Europe are failing millions of young people. Youth unemployment figures are running at a historical high – 5.7 million Europeans under the...
View ArticleCareful steps toward an EU patent
The EU and, before that, the European Community, have been talking since the 1960s about the possibility of a single patent that covers its whole territory. As it stands now, only one aspect of getting...
View ArticleFour obstacles still prevent Europe to grow and innovate in the cloud
In recent years, cloud computing has evolved from an amazing innovation with lots of potential into an asset that we can increasingly no longer live without, both on a business and a personal basis,...
View ArticleBig data: The next big ICT policy debate in Brussels
In recent years, cloud computing has captured much of policy makers’ attention. With its massive datacenters, the Internet cloud delivers virtually infinite resources, providing the storage capacity to...
View ArticleWhat are the policy considerations in enabling Big Data?
Unleashing the potential of a data-driven economy will require policies that enable data to flow and be exchanged freely across geopolitical boundaries, while minimizing risks and harms to enterprises...
View ArticleEurope’s online economy growing at more than 10% per year
Online intermediaries contribute more than €430 billion to European economy in 2012; Digital Single Market key to continued growth. The European Digital Media Association (EDiMA) presented European...
View ArticleEU Cybersecurity Forum 2013
We are organizing the second edition of Microsoft’s EU Cybersecurity Forum, which will take place on 6 June 2013 in Brussels. This full day Forum will once again feature a number of high profile...
View ArticleMinding the privacy gap
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about Microsoft’s new consumer privacy campaign and a quiz we developed – Your Privacy Type (YPT) – for consumers to gauge where they fall on the privacy continuum. Thus...
View ArticlePEGI FOR APPS: protecting against inappropriate online content
Exactly 10 years ago, the pan-European Game Information (or PEGI) system was founded, harmonising the age classification of video games in more than 30 countries. Over the last decade, the system has...
View ArticleEvolving governance in the Internet age
Now is a good time to take stock of Internet Governance discussions: it is only a few weeks since ITU’s now-famed World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) concluded in Dubai, and the...
View ArticleEuropean Union check-up: Romania still tops the list of most infected in the EU
As the legislative process on network and information security is kicking off and the discussions on the right legislative and non-legislative approaches to security risk management is intensifying , a...
View ArticleMicrosoft takes Botnet Threat Intelligence Program to the Cloud; Provides...
Protecting people is at the forefront of the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit’s fight against cybercrime. When we launched the Project MARS (Microsoft Active Response for Security) program in 2010 to...
View ArticleEuropean Union check-up: Malicious Websites Hosted in the EU
In the first part of this series on the threat landscape in the European Union (EU) I examined threats found in the location with the highest malware infection rate, Romania. In this article I will...
View ArticleEuropean Union check-up: locations with lowest infection rates in the EU and...
In the first part of this series on the threat landscape in the European Union (EU) I examined threats found in the location with the highest malware infection rate, Romania. In the second part of the...
View ArticleTranslating good intentions into effective cybersecurity policy
Governments around the world are considering regulatory changes in an effort to reduce cybersecurity risk; in fact, more than 40 governments are working on cybersecurity plans, policies, and/or...
View ArticleMicrosoft works with financial services industry leaders, law enforcement and...
In our most aggressive botnet operation to date, the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit worked with leaders of the financial services industry, other technology industry partners and the Federal Bureau of...
View ArticleThe State of the European Union
The third annual conference of The State of the European Union is taking place at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on 6 June 2013.
View ArticleThe battle of the sexes; what new data reveal
The one thing on which men and women always seem to agree is that they can rarely agree on anything. Asking directions may be the perfect example. Yet in today’s data-driven world, there is perhaps one...
View ArticleLuxembourg’s Parliament resolves to protect net neutrality, and the EU should...
A few days ago, Luxembourg’s parliament adopted a motion calling for net neutrality to be enshrined in national law, and for the Government to defend and promote the respect of the neutrality of the...
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