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Amazon fined $47 million for hoarding kids’ data, spying through cameras
Amazon has agreed to pay more than $US30 million ($47 million) in fines to US regulators following allegations of historical privacy abuses, including retaining data collected from children after being explicitly asked to delete it. In one case, the US Federal Trade Commission had alleged that, before mid-2019, the company failed to remove voice recordings, transcriptions and precise location data collected from children via the Alexa voice assistant even after parents requested their removal. In another case, it said the company’s Ring video doorbells and security cameras had unreasonable privacy practices in January 2020. According to the FTC, Ring employees and contractors were given unrestricted access to view videos taken at users’ homes. In both cases, the regulators specifically frame the breaches as designed to train Amazon AI and algorithms at the expense of users’ privacy, placing the fines within a trend of lawmakers around the world cracking down on unnecessary data collection and retention. ...

EU-US Trade and Technology Council enhances cooperation in emerging technologies, sustainable trade and economic security
Today, the European Union and the United States have held the fourth ministerial meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in Luleå, Sweden. ...

Meta on Monday was fined a record 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) and ordered to stop transferring data collected from Facebook users in Europe to the United States, in a major ruling against the social media company for violating European Union data protection rules. The penalty, announced by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, is potentially one of the most consequential in the five years since the European Union enacted the landmark data privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation. Regulators said the company failed to comply with a 2020 decision by the European Union’s highest court that Facebook data shipped across the Atlantic was not sufficiently protected from American spy agencies. ...

22nd May 2023 The Data Protection Commission (“the DPC”) has today announced the conclusion of its inquiry into Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (“Meta Ireland”), examining the basis upon which Meta Ireland transfers personal data from the EU/EEA to the US in connection with the delivery of its Facebook service. …

Guidelines 05/2022 on the use of facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement
Following public consultation, the EDPB has adopted a final version of its Guidelines on facial recognition technology in the area of law enforcement. The guidelines provide guidance to EU and national lawmakers, as well as to law enforcement authorities, on implementing and using facial recognition technology systems. ... You can find that document on our website https://www.privacyresources.eu

‼️Oggi si è tenuto il primo evento online in italiano 🇮🇹 "**XMPP Italian happy hour**" dedicato a XMPP. Gli eventi su XMPP si terranno online con live streaming il terzo martedì di ogni mese. Prossimo appuntamento il **20 giugno 2023**. 📹 Il video di oggi è disponibile qui: https://tube.nicfab.eu/w/xkMzvkSnxvkm2YdpqiGW12 Stay tuned! #XMPP #federation #chat #interoperability

In the face of recent news on artificial intelligence, and in particular so-called generative AIs such as ChatGPT, the CNIL publishes an action plan for the deployment of AI systems that respect the privacy of individuals. ...

##### The High-Level Group on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will meet for the first time today. The inaugural meeting will bring together representatives of different European bodies and networks to discuss issues of common interest as regards the implementation of the DMA. During this first meeting, the High-Level Group is expected to discuss several topics relevant to the application and enforcement of the DMA, including the state of its implementation, developments in the areas of expertise of the members of the Group that are of relevance for enforcement of the DMA, and findings of the series of DMA workshops organized by the Commission in the last six months on topics such as self-preferencing, interoperability, app stores, and data-related obligations. The High-Level Group brings together 30 representatives nominated from the Body of the European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and European Data Protection Board (EDPB), the European Competition Network (ECN), the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPC Network), and the European Regulatory Group of Audiovisual Media Regulators (ERGA). The Group, set up in March 2023, has a mandate of two years, and will meet at least once per year. The High-Level Group may provide the Commission with advice and expertise to ensure that the DMA and other sectoral regulations applicable to gatekeepers are implemented in a coherent and complementary manner. It may also provide expertise in market investigations into emerging services and practices, to help ensure that the DMA is future-proof.

BRUSSELS — Europe got closer to a full-on ban on facial recognition in public spaces and reining in ChatGPT after lawmakers adopted a strengthened version of the EU's artificial intelligence rulebook on Thursday. Members of the European Parliament in the internal market and civil liberties committees passed their compromise text for the Artificial Intelligence Act, first floated by the European Commission in April 2021. The text was backed by an 84-7 vote, with 12 abstentions. MEPs agreed on a blanket ban on remote biometric identification — AI-aided techniques, such as facial recognition, to recognize individuals from pictures or footage — in public venues, both in real-time and after the fact, in a departure from both the Commission's original proposal and the position backed in Council by EU member countries. The issue was hotly debated among leading lawmakers thrashing out the text, with the center-right Christian Democrats fiercely opposing the ban. ...

Building Trustworthy AI
We will all soon get into the habit of using AI tools for help with everyday problems and tasks. We should get in the habit of questioning the motives, incentives, and capabilities behind them, too. Imagine you’re using an AI chatbot to plan a vacation. Did it suggest a particular resort because it knows your preferences, or because the company is getting a kickback from the hotel chain? Later, when you’re using another AI chatbot to learn about a complex economic issue, is the chatbot reflecting your politics or the politics of the company that trained it? ...

New technologies come with new risks, and the impact of cyber-attacks through digital products has increased dramatically in recent years. Increasingly, consumers have fallen victim to security flaws linked to digital products such as baby monitors, robo-vacuum cleaners, Wi-Fi routers and alarm systems. For businesses, the importance of ensuring that digital products in the supply chain are secure has become pivotal, considering three in five vendors have already lost money owing to product security gaps. The European Commission's proposal for a regulation, the 'cyber-resilience act', therefore aims to impose cybersecurity obligations on all products with digital elements whose intended and foreseeable use includes direct or indirect data connection to a device or network. The proposal introduces cybersecurity by design and by default principles and imposes a duty of care for the lifecycle of products. The Council and Parliament are currently working on defining their respective positions. Second edition. The 'EU Legislation in Progress' briefings are updated at key stages in the legislative procedure.

- Once approved, they will be the world’s first rules on Artificial Intelligence - MEPs include bans on biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, predictive policing AI systems - Tailor-made regimes for general-purpose AI and foundation models like GPT - The right to make complaints about AI systems **To ensure a human-centric and ethical development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Europe, MEPs endorsed new transparency and risk-management rules for AI systems.** On Thursday, the Internal Market Committee and the Civil Liberties Committee adopted a draft negotiating mandate on the first ever rules for Artificial Intelligence with 84 votes in favour, 7 against and 12 abstentions. In their amendments to the Commission’s proposal, MEPs aim to ensure that AI systems are overseen by people, are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly. They also want to have a uniform definition for AI designed to be technology-neutral, so that it can apply to the AI systems of today and tomorrow. ...

The European Parliament’s leading parliamentary committees have green-lighted the AI Act in a vote on Thursday (11 May), paving the way for plenary adoption in mid-June. The AI Act is a flagship legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its potential to cause harm. On Thursday, the Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Internal Market committees jointly adopted the text by large majority. ...

European Chips Act: Commission launches pilot system to monitor semiconductor supply chain
Today, the Commission has launched the Semiconductor Alert System, a new pilot system to monitor the semiconductor supply chain. The pilot allows stakeholders to raise awareness on any critical disruption along the semiconductors' value chain and helps the Commission to gather information needed to establish a precise assessment of risks and to quickly react to any potential crisis situation via the European Semiconductor Expert Group. ...

**EU lawmakers have been finalising the text of the AI regulation ahead of the vote in the leading parliamentary committees on Thursday (11 May).** The AI Act is a landmark legislative proposal to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its potential to cause harm. The members of the European Parliaments (MEPs) spearheading the file shared a fine-tuned version of the compromise amendments on Friday (5 May). The compromises, seen by EURACTIV, reflect a broader political agreement reached at the end of April but also include last-minute changes and important details on how the deal has been operationalised. ...

**Key Highlights** Nym protects privacy at the network layer by encrypting and relaying your internet traffic through a multi-layered network called a mixnet. In each layer of the mixnet, mix nodes mix your internet traffic with that of other users, making communications private and hiding your metadata (IP address, who you talk to, when and where, and more). The Nym mixnet is incentivized and decentralized. Users pay a fee in NYM to send their data through the mixnet. By pledging an initial bond of NYM, anyone can run a mix node. Node runners are then rewarded in NYM tokens based on good quality of service, doing the work of mixing packets and providing privacy for the end users. This is called ‘proof of mixing,’ similar to how Bitcoin rewards miners for mining new blocks. The reward mechanism enables the mixnet to scale and decentralize. Nym can work with any application. From Bitcoin to ZCash, no current “layer 1” blockchain provides “layer 0 privacy” for the peer-to-peer broadcasts used in every transaction. Nym can provide network-level privacy for any blockchain and other generic applications. From Bitcoin to instant messaging, developers can build their applications on top of Nym for network layer and metadata protection of their users. ...
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Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over a year since Elon Musk announced his bid to buy Twitter, and those who opposed the sale have tried setting up shop on platforms like Mastodon, Substack Notes, T2… but none of these Twitter alternatives have really captured lightning in a bottle like Bluesky. Bluesky remains invite-only in its beta, but as more people get on the site, the hype around it is growing — though as we know from apps like Clubhouse, the hype might not last forever. In the meantime, Bluesky now has around 50,000 users, but according to estimates from data.ai, the app has been downloaded more than 375,000 times. So many people are trying to get an invite that they’ve started popping up for sale on eBay (we would advise against making that purchase). ...

Digital Services Act: Delegated Regulation on independent audits now available for public feedback
Today, the Commission has launched a consultation on draft rules on how independent audits should be conducted under the Digital Services Act (DSA) for Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs). graphic showing a photo of a person using a laptop with digital symbols projected on top of it iStock photo Getty images plus The consultation will run until 2 June. After gathering public feedback, the Commission intends to adopt the rules before the end of the year. Independent audits are essential to help the Commission to assess compliance with all obligations under the DSA. Rigorous independent audits are an important accountability tool for the DSA and reflect best practices in many other regulated sectors, such as in financial services. ...

**Lawmakers in the European Parliament are poised to expand the scope of artificial intelligence systems covered under an upcoming regulation. A transatlantic clash can still be avoided, writes Hadrien Pouget.** *Hadrien Pouget is a visiting research analyst in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.* European parliamentarians are considering additions to the initial Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act’s draft lists of either prohibited or high-risk applications. The AI Act’s main thrust is to require programmers working on high-risk applications to document, test and take other safety measures. ...

The EDPS has issued five Opinions on the European Commission’s Recommendations to open negotiations for International Agreements on the exchange of personal data between Europol, the EU Agency for Law Enforcement, and the competent authorities of five Latin American countries: Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and Mexico to fight serious crime and terrorism. The EDPS Opinions aim to provide advice on further developing data protection safeguards in these future International Agreements so that individuals’ personal data is protected according to EU standards. ...

GDPR: the right to obtain a ‘copy’ of personal data means that the data subject must be given a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all those data
Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) in Case C-487/21 | Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde and CRIF - 4 May 2023 *** On those grounds, the Court (First Chamber) hereby rules: **1. The first sentence of Article 15(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation),** **must be interpreted as meaning that the right to obtain from the controller a copy of the personal data undergoing processing means that the data subject must be given a faithful and intelligible reproduction of all those data. That right entails the right to obtain copies of extracts from documents or even entire documents or extracts from databases which contain, inter alia, those data, if the provision of such a copy is essential in order to enable the data subject to exercise effectively the rights conferred on him or her by that regulation, bearing in mind that account must be taken, in that regard, of the rights and freedoms of others.** **2. The third sentence of Article 15(3) of Regulation 2016/679** **must be interpreted as meaning that the concept of ‘information’ to which it refers relates exclusively to the personal data of which the controller must provide a copy pursuant to the first sentence of that paragraph.**

RGPD: il diritto di ottenere una «copia» dei dati personali implica che sia consegnata all’interessato una riproduzione fedele e intelligibile dell’insieme di tali dati
Sentenza della Corte (Prima Sezione) nella causa C-487/21 | Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde e CRIF - 4 maggio 2023 *** Per questi motivi, la Corte (Prima Sezione) dichiara: **1) L’articolo 15, paragrafo 3, prima frase, del regolamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 27 aprile 2016, relativo alla protezione delle persone fisiche con riguardo al trattamento dei dati personali, nonché alla libera circolazione di tali dati e che abroga la direttiva 95/46/CE (regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati),** **deve essere interpretato nel senso che:** **il diritto di ottenere dal titolare del trattamento una copia dei dati personali oggetto di trattamento implica che sia consegnata all’interessato una riproduzione fedele e intelligibile dell’insieme di tali dati. Detto diritto presuppone quello di ottenere copia di estratti di documenti o addirittura di documenti interi o, ancora, di estratti di banche dati contenenti, tra l’altro, tali dati, se la fornitura di una siffatta copia è indispensabile per consentire all’interessato di esercitare effettivamente i diritti conferitigli da tale regolamento, fermo restando che occorre tener conto, al riguardo, dei diritti e delle libertà altrui.** **2) L’articolo 15, paragrafo 3, terza frase, del regolamento 2016/679** **deve essere interpretato nel senso che:** **la nozione di «informazioni» ivi menzionata si riferisce esclusivamente ai dati personali di cui il titolare del trattamento deve fornire una copia in applicazione della prima frase di tale paragrafo.**

Mere infringement of the GDPR does not give rise to a right to compensation
Judgment of the Court (Third Chamber) in Case C-300/21 | Österreichische Post (Non-material damage resulting from unlawful processing of data) - 4 May 2023 *** On those grounds, the Court (Third Chamber) hereby rules: **1. Article 82(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)** **must be interpreted as meaning that the mere infringement of the provisions of that regulation is not sufficient to confer a right to compensation.** **2. Article 82(1) of Regulation 2016/679** **must be interpreted as precluding a national rule or practice which makes compensation for non-material damage, within the meaning of that provision, subject to the condition that the damage suffered by the data subject has reached a certain degree of seriousness.** **3. Article 82 of Regulation 2016/679** **must be interpreted as meaning that for the purposes of determining the amount of damages payable under the right to compensation enshrined in that article, national courts must apply the domestic rules of each Member State relating to the extent of financial compensation, provided that the principles of equivalence and effectiveness of EU law are complied with.**

La mera violazione del RGPD non fonda un diritto al risarcimento
Sentenza della Corte (Terza Sezione) nella causa C-300/21 | Österreichische Post (Danno immateriale inerente al trattamento di dati personali) - 4 maggio 2023 *** Per questi motivi, la Corte (Terza Sezione) dichiara: **1) L’articolo 82, paragrafo 1, del regolamento (UE) 2016/679 del Parlamento europeo e del Consiglio, del 27 aprile 2016, relativo alla protezione delle persone fisiche con riguardo al trattamento dei dati personali, nonché alla libera circolazione di tali dati e che abroga la direttiva 95/46/CE (regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati),** **deve essere interpretato nel senso che:** **la mera violazione delle disposizioni di tale regolamento non è sufficiente per conferire un diritto al risarcimento.** **2) L’articolo 82, paragrafo 1, del regolamento 2016/679** **deve essere interpretato nel senso che:** **esso osta a una norma o una prassi nazionale che subordina il risarcimento di un danno immateriale, ai sensi di tale disposizione, alla condizione che il danno subito dall’interessato abbia raggiunto un certo grado di gravità.** **3) L’articolo 82 del regolamento 2016/679** **deve essere interpretato nel senso che:** **ai fini della determinazione dell’importo del risarcimento dovuto in base al diritto al risarcimento sancito da tale articolo, i giudici nazionali devono applicare le norme interne di ciascuno Stato membro relative all’entità del risarcimento pecuniario, purché siano rispettati i principi di equivalenza e di effettività del diritto dell’Unione.**

**The capacity for public authorities and external auditors to access the source code of Artificial Intelligence in an upcoming EU rulebook was restricted based on a digital trade agreement, according to internal documents from the European Commission.** The internal documents were obtained via a freedom of information request by Kristina Irion, a law professor at the University of Amsterdam, showing several requests from the Commission’s trade department to the digital policy department on the draft AI Act. ...

The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) applies from today. Now that the DMA applies, potential gatekeepers that meet the quantitative thresholds established have until 3 July to notify their core platform services to the Commission. ...

TAKASAKI, April 30 (Reuters) - European Union tech regulation chief Margrethe Vestager said on Sunday the bloc will likely reach a political agreement this year that will pave the way for the world's first major artificial intelligence (AI) legislation. This would follow a preliminary deal reached on Thursday on the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act. In an interview with Reuters at a Group of Seven digital ministers' meeting in Takasaki, Japan, Vestager suggested legislative measures for the use of AI tools, such as "labelling obligations for AI-generated images". ...

STOCKHOLM, April 27 (Reuters) - Companies deploying generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, will have to disclose any copyrighted material used to develop their systems, according to an early EU agreement that could pave the way for the world's first comprehensive laws governing the technology. The European Commission began drafting the AI Act nearly two years ago to regulate emerging artificial intelligence technology, which underwent a boom in investment and popularity following the release of OpenAI's AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT. ...

# SimpleX Chat Abbiamo già scritto alcuni articoli sulle app di messaggistica istantanea che rispettano la privacy1. In questo articolo presentiamo SimpleX Chat (già alla versione 5.0, ma seguiamo il progetto da tempo), che ha la particolarità - come si può leggere sul sito ufficiale - di essere il primo messenger senza ID utente. Va segnalato che anche Session non utilizza identificatori. SimpleX Chat, fondato da Evgeny Poberezkin, è un progetto open-source sotto licenza AGPL-3.0, avviato nel 2020. Essendo un progetto open-source, è possibile accedere al suo repository GitHub per visualizzare e verificare il codice. Crediamo e sosteniamo l’open-source, considerandolo un valore considerevole. Pertanto, complimenti agli sviluppatori di Simplex Chat. Il progetto è ben curato e in continuo sviluppo, tanto che l’attuale SimpleX Chat v5.0 supporta video e file fino a 1GB. ...

# SimpleX Chat We already wrote some articles on instant messaging apps that respect privacy1. In this article, we present SimpleX Chat (already to version 5.0, but we have been following the project since some time ago), which has the particularity - as you can read on the official website - to be the first messenger without user IDs. We should point out that Session also does not use identifiers. SimpleX Chat, founded by Evgeny Poberezkin, is an open-source project under AGPL-3.0 license, started in 2020. Being an open-source project, you can access its GitHub repository to view and verify the code. We believe in and support open-source, considering it as a considerable value. Thus, kudos to Simplex Chat’s developers. The project is well attended and in continuous development, so much so that the current SimpleX Chat v5.0 supports videos and files up to 1GB. ...

Threat actors are advertising a new information stealer for the Apple macOS operating system called Atomic macOS Stealer (or AMOS) on Telegram for $1,000 per month, joining the likes of MacStealer. "The Atomic macOS Stealer can steal various types of information from the victim's machine, including Keychain passwords, complete system information, files from the desktop and documents folder, and even the macOS password," Cyble researchers said in a technical report. Among other features include its ability to extract data from web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets like Atomic, Binance, Coinomi, Electrum, and Exodus. Threat actors who purchase the stealer from its developers are also provided a ready-to-use web panel for managing the victims. ...

Looking for something to do in May? Why not come to EU Open Day to find out more about what we do to shape a safer digital future! Look back on our key achievements of the year 2022; discover or read up on Central Bank Digital Currency; listen to our new podcast; and more in this edition of the EDPS Newsletter!

Race to become new EDPB Chair officially kicked off
During the EDPB’s plenary of 26 April 2023, the EDPB members running to become the new EDPB Chair presented their candidacy to the Board. In accordance with the GDPR, the Board elects one Chair and two Deputy Chairs amongst its members, by simple majority for a term of office of five years, which is renewable once. The Chair is the official representative of the Board. The terms of office of Chair Andrea Jelinek and Deputy Chair Ventsislav Karadjov, will be ending on 25 May 2023. Candidates for both positions were given a chance to present themselves to the other members of the Board a month ahead of the election. The position of Deputy Chair Aleid Wolfsen is not open for re-election, as he was elected on 15 May 2019 and his term will therefore end on 15 May 2024. The following Heads of national data protection authorities (DPAs) expressed their interest to become the next EDPB Chair: - Ventsislav Karadjov (Bulgarian DPA) - Anu Talus (Finnish DPA) - Aleid Wolfsen (Dutch DPA) The following Heads of DPAs expressed their interest to become Deputy Chair: - Irene Loizidou Nikolaidou (Cypriot DPA) - Jekaterina Macuka (Latvian DPA) - Zdravko Vukić (Croatian DPA) The elections will take place during the EDPB plenary meeting on 25 May 2023, through secret ballot. For more information on the election procedure, please consult the EDPB Rules of Procedure.

EDPB Launches Data Protection Guide for small business
The EDPB has launched a Data Protection Guide to help small business owners on their way to become more data protection compliant. The Guide aims to raise awareness about the GDPR and to provide practical information to SMEs about GDPR compliance in an accessible and easily understandable format. Andrea Jelinek said, “In this guide, SMEs will find various tools and practical tips to help them comply with the GDPR. It includes concrete examples gathered during our 5 years of experience with the GDPR.” The Guide covers various aspects of the GDPR, from data protection basics, to data subject rights, data breaches, and more. It contains videos, infographics, interactive flowcharts, and other practical materials to help SMEs put data protection into practice. In addition, the Guide contains an overview of handy materials developed for SMEs by the national Data Protection Authorities. The Guide is currently available in English and will be made available in other EU languages over time. The Guide is one of the EDPB’s awareness raising actions for 2023 and was included as a key initiative in the EDPB’s 2021-2023 Strategy.

EDPS contribution in the context of the European Commission's initiative to further specify procedural rules relating to the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Today, the Commission adopted the first designation decisions under the Digital Services Act (DSA), designating 17 Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and 2 Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) that reach at least 45 million monthly active users. These are: Very Large Online Platforms: Alibaba AliExpress Amazon Store Apple AppStore Booking.com Facebook Google Play Google Maps Google Shopping Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest Snapchat TikTok Twitter Wikipedia YouTube Zalando Very Large Online Search Engines: Bing Google Search The platforms have been designated based on the user data that they had to publish by 17 February 2023. ...

A financially-motivated North Korean threat actor is suspected to be behind a new Apple macOS malware strain called RustBucket. "[RustBucket] communicates with command and control (C2) servers to download and execute various payloads," Jamf Threat Labs researchers Ferdous Saljooki and Jaron Bradley said in a technical report published last week. The Apple device management company attributed it to a threat actor known as BlueNoroff, a subgroup within the infamous Lazarus cluster that's also tracked under the monikers APT28, Nickel Gladstone, Sapphire Sleet, Stardust Chollima, and TA444. The connections stem from tactical and infrastructure overlaps with a prior campaign exposed by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky in late December 2022 likely aimed at Japanese financial entities using fake domains impersonating venture capital firms. ...

**Abstract:** This report provides an overview of the robotics industry in Europe, as well as a description of the definitions, typologies and main differences between industrial and service robots. The aim is to build up a stronger and updated knowledge of research questions, approaches and data that scholars and policy makers could use to study robotics around the world, and more specifically in Europe. It also identifies the necessary actions to merge heterogeneous data into a meaningful and consistent dataset to estimate the EU shares of robotics from the demand and supply perspectives, and for both industrial and service robots. Complementing these data with other sources to enhance the value and significance of the overall estimation exercise of the EU robotics market shares, provides a comprehensive overview of the production and adoption sides for both industrial and service robots. The three main objectives of the report are: to build a dataset including the market shares of robots in the EU; to describe the main trends that can be extracted from data; and, to sketch a conceptual framework to contextualise the results from the first two objectives. ...

Il gruppo di hacktivisti filorussi di NoName057(16) ha sferrato un nuovo attacco contro un nuovo obiettivo italiano attraverso un Distributed Denial of a Service (DDoS). Questa volta a farne le spese è il sito della ATM. L’Azienda Trasporti Milanesi, di proprietà del Comune di Milano, gestisce il trasporto pubblico del capoluogo lombardo e in 51 Comuni della Provincia, al servizio di un territorio con una popolazione complessiva di oltre 2,4 milioni di cittadini. NoName057(16) è un gruppo di hacker che si è dichiarato a marzo del 2022 a supporto della Federazione Russa dopo l’inizio della guerra tra Ucraina e Russia. ...

**Parliament endorsed the first EU rules to trace crypto-asset transfers, prevent money laundering, as well as common rules on supervision and customer protection.** On Thursday, MEPs approved with 529 votes in favour to 29 against and 14 abstentions, the first piece of EU legislation for tracing transfers of crypto-assets like bitcoins and electronic money tokens. The text –which was provisionally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators in June 2022- aims to ensure that crypto transfers, as is the case with any other financial operation, can always be traced and suspicious transactions blocked. The so-called “travel rule”, already used in traditional finance, will in future cover transfers of crypto assets. Information on the source of the asset and its beneficiary will have to “travel” with the transaction and be stored on both sides of the transfer. ...