Brussels calling: tackling societal problems with technology
In the midst of the vacation season, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the future Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy for the European Union. The intent is to...
View ArticleThe need for a US – European Union Innovation Dialogue
The leaders of the European Union and the U.S. agreed in April 2007 to establish a Transatlantic Framework for Advancing Transatlantic Integration (the Framework) between the U.S. and the European...
View ArticleFlemish Government delegation visiting Intel Headquarters
On February 16th, a government delegation from Flanders (a region within Belgium) lead by its Minister President Kris Peeters and the Minister for innovation, Ingrid Lieten, visited Intel’s...
View ArticleSorry About Your Uncle
Over the past year, Intel has paid more than $2 billion in fines and settlements related to antitrust. I’m not a disinterested observer: I’m a PR person who defends the company in such matters to...
View ArticleApproval of Intel’s Corporate Privacy Rules
By David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer I am pleased to announce that Intel’s Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs), to be known as the Intel Corporate Privacy Rules (ICPRs)...
View ArticleA Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement on the way? Intel outlines its...
By Christoph Luykx, Public Policy Manager Europe, and Daniel Keenan, Public Policy Intern Europe This past week Intel submitted its response to the European Commission’s consultation on the future of...
View ArticleSecuring the Global Digital Infrastructure (GDI) Together
Intel and McAfee welcome European Union resolve to fight cyber threats By David Hoffman, Raj Samani and Christoph Luykx Today, the European Commission and the EU’s External Action Service (EEAS)...
View ArticleThe Call for a Comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement: A...
By Greg Slater, director of Trade and Competition Policy at Intel Intel applauds the recent announcement from the leaders of the U.S. and European Union to launch negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade...
View ArticleBroadband regulation in Europe moving in right direction
By Peter Pitsch, associate general counsel and executive director of communications policy for Intel State of the art telecom networks will be the lifeblood of Europe’s digital markets and,...
View ArticleA Vision for Big Data
Big Data refers to huge data sets that are orders of magnitude larger (volume), more diverse, including structured, semi-structured and unstructured data (variety) and arriving faster (velocity) than...
View ArticleTTIP: An Opportunity to Strengthen Global Technology Standards
By Phil Wennblom, Director of Standards Policy and Greg Slater, Director of Global Trade Policy By enabling products and technologies from different companies to interoperate, or work together,...
View ArticleIntel Brussels welcomes a new blogger
Hi ! My name is Julian Lageard and I’ve been working on EU environmental regulation for the past couple of decades. Europe can be proud of what it has achieved by setting the global bar from a...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Joins Conflict Free* Mission
By Christian Morales, Intel Vice President and General Manager of Intel EMEA Today, the European Commission adopted a proposal to establish a European framework for supply chain due diligence and...
View ArticleState Aid for “Vectoring” Broadband Investment in Rural Germany?
Intel wants broadband to be affordable and high quality, but determining which last-mile broadband technology is most cost-effective (that is, weighing the tradeoff between affordability and high...
View ArticleRethink Privacy 2.0 and Fair Information Practice Principles: A Common...
By: Paula Bruening Last week, Mauritius hosted the 36th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. By convening in this island African country, the data protection...
View ArticleTenth Anniversary of ENISA – European Network and Information Security Agency
by: Dr. Claire Vishik In today’s fast-paced world, ten years is a long time, and nothing changes as fast as the technology landscape. When ENISA was formed in 2004, the importance of cybersecurity was...
View ArticleEuropean Data Protection Days in Berlin
By Paula J. Bruening, Senior Counsel, Global Privacy Policy, Intel Last week, data protection authorities, privacy experts, companies and advocates met in Berlin for European Data Protection Days 2015....
View ArticleThe EU – U.S. Safe Harbor and the Promise of Big Data and Technology
By Paula J. Bruening, Senior Counsel for Global Privacy Policy at Intel The decision handed down last week by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in the Schrems case serves as an...
View ArticleRethinking Privacy in Amsterdam
By Paula J. Bruening, senior counsel for Global Privacy Policy Last week in Amsterdam, I was privileged to join data protection authorities, industry representatives, advocates and policymakers as they...
View ArticleThe Origins of Data Privacy Day
By: David A. Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Around the Dinner Table Happy Data Privacy Day! Data Privacy Day began with a conversation at my dinner table eight years ago,...
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