Daily Archives: 2017-06-25

As previously reported multiple times (Digital Sovereignty – Participate! Contribute!, Whitebook Digital Platforms in the Making), the German Federal Government is working on a strategy for digital platforms. The announced Whitebook was published in March 2017. The most important results regarding the assurance of digital sovereignty – the central concern of in4com.de – are summarized below. However: civil society must remain vigilant due to some clear shortcomings of the Whitebook. Furthermore, the secret international negotiations of free trade agreements (above all TiSA – Trade in Services Agreement, we reported on this) are expected to have strong negative impacts on privacy […]