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End of the Road
Read more: End of the RoadAfter a decade of advocating for the developer community, the time has come to wind down the Developers Alliance. For some of you, this may come as a shock. As…
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Proposed ePrivacy Regulation to affect all European industries and cost more than €500 billion in reduced annual turnover
Read more: Proposed ePrivacy Regulation to affect all European industries and cost more than €500 billion in reduced annual turnoverA report commissioned by the Developers Alliance and produced by London Economics shows that the proposed ePrivacy Regulation being discussed in Brussels is potentially costly, definitely confusing, and likely to reduce innovation and investment across the EU. The total costs could soar as high as €551.9 billion annually in reduced turnover, with an impact far…
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Joined up thinking on emergency apps: your fridge can talk to your phone, so why can’t emergency services apps communicate? EENA to the rescue
Read more: Joined up thinking on emergency apps: your fridge can talk to your phone, so why can’t emergency services apps communicate? EENA to the rescueThere are hundreds of emergency services applications in use across Europe, but they can currently only be used locally. In 2018, this should be a cause for alarm, so public safety organisation, EENA, together with Beta 80, Deveryware and the Developers Alliance, is going to do something about it.
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Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business Relations
Read more: Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business RelationsDevelopers Alliance Press Release on the Publication of the European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Promoting Fairness and Transparency for Business Users of Online Intermediation Services and Online Search Engines in the Digital Single Market
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There Is No Privacy without Encryption, Say EU Data Protection Authorities
Read more: There Is No Privacy without Encryption, Say EU Data Protection AuthoritiesInteresting news out of Europe, as the EU’s data protection authorities (Working Party 29) resoundingly endorsed end-to-end encryption as a “necessity” to protect personal privacy, and specifically rejected backdoors and key escrow by authorities. Score one for the people.Developers know that user trust relies on principles of Transparency, Security and Stewardship, and that there is no…
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Developers: Five steps you can take NOW to prepare for the looming data privacy reboot
Read more: Developers: Five steps you can take NOW to prepare for the looming data privacy rebootWhat follows is an introduction to the data and trust project that the Developers Alliance began in late 2017. Throughout 2018 the project will deliver developer insights, best practices with data, educational material to demystify data for users and policy makers, and a dialogue series to bring in experts and outside voices on the topic…
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Guest Post: The GDPR deadline is coming fast! Is your back end ready?
Read more: Guest Post: The GDPR deadline is coming fast! Is your back end ready?For now, count yourself fortunate. The rules are limited to companies who have personal data of people from or in Europe. But don’t get complacent. With the recent news surrounding data security and privacy, the US may not be far behind in enacting data privacy laws of our own. But that’s a subject for another blog…
