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PACE Seeks Monitoring Body for Soccer Governance
January 31, 2018
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has approved a resolution pushing the EU to set up an independent body to monitor governance in major soccer organizations such as the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to prevent them from "self-destructing."
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EU Struggles to Create Effective Penalties for Data Abuse
January 31, 2018
Mark Scott of Politico warns that the EU's production of new data-protection regulations providing for significant penalties for technology companies that misuse or fail to protect user data will change nothing if citizens within the EU remain uninformed about the broad complaints powers the legislation will grant them.
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EC Seeks Comment on IP Blacklist
January 30, 2018
Broadband TV News reports that the European Commission (EC) is seeking public consultation on a new "Counterfeit and Piracy Watch-List" that will identify and monitor jurisdictions outside the EU containing large levels of intellectual-property (IP) abuse.
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WEF Panel: Companies Must Build Trust or Face Regulation
January 29, 2018
Participating in a panel at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, a group of high-level business leaders warned businesses that they have a responsibility to "build trust in their values and intentions" across the general public to avoid invasive government regulations of their operations.
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UN Groups Seek Global Adoption of Gender-Pay Laws
January 29, 2018
Two UN human rights working groups have called on governments around the world to combat gender-pay discrimination using the example of Icelandic legislation requiring businesses with 25 or more employees to obtain an "equal pay certificate" showing they "have classified jobs according to equal value and have then analysed people’s wages accordingly."
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