Tag: digital single market

One phrase I have repeatedly used since 2014 is that ‘trust is a must’ in the digital world.

In late 2014, when we began drawing up a plan for the Digital Single Market (DSM) I called it a long-term strategy to stimulate Europe’s digital environment, minimise legal uncertainty and create fair conditions for everyone.

Tomorrow is a big day for the data economy. Data’s very concept is changing. It has become a commodity: its ownership can be transferred, it can be marketed, reused, aggregated, transformed, bought and sold.

Later today, Brussels will play host to an important event for international development – or rather, an event that advances digital for development.

Anyone reading the international news headlines over the last few weeks will know that cyber warfare remains very much alive.

Many of you will be following the twists and turns of the EU's reform of copyright law.

For those who follow my blogs, you know that I have written a few times already about the importance of trust in the online environment.

Summer is now upon us - and things are getting a lot easier for the digitally minded traveller around Europe.