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Jobs offering the chance to work from home boomed in Germany during the pandemic, but have continued to grow even afterwards, according to an analysis by the Bertelsmann Foundation released on Wednesday. The proportion of online job advertisements with the option to work from home has increased fivefold since 2019, according to the report. Before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, working from home played almost no role in German work culture. In 2019, only 3.7% of all online job advertisements offered the option of working from home. By 2022, this figure had risen to 16.8% and, according ...
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The interior ministers of Germany's federal states are examining whether to introduce a separate criminal offence for cyberbullying. The proposal is included in a draft resolution ahead of a meeting of interior ministers in the city of Potsdam near Berlin from Wednesday to Friday. "Cyberbullying is a growing phenomenon that has so far been underestimated, although it has serious consequences for victims in many areas of life," said Michael Stübgen, the interior minister of the eastern state of Brandenburg. He submitted the motion to the conference, which he currently chairs. Justice ministers ...
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Australia's internet watchdog has dropped a court case against Elon Musk's social media platform X, eSafety commissioner Julie Inman-Grant said on Wednesday. Australia wanted to force X to remove footage of a Sydney church stabbing from the platform. X blocked the posts in Australia pending a legal challenge, before the Federal Court ordered the platform to temporarily hide the video for all users globally. Inman-Grant said in a statement a Federal Court case had now been abandoned. "Our sole goal and focus in issuing our removal notice was to prevent this extremely violent footage from going ...
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Two major new laws regulating online platforms recently came into force in the European Union: the competition-focused Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the content-focused Digital Services Act (DSA). The European Commission has wasted no time in pursuing those it suspects of violating the new rulebook. The latest action came at the end of March, when the commission opened investigations into Apple, Google parent company Alphabet and Meta because it suspects them of not complying with the DMA's competition rules. The announcement came just two weeks after the DMA's entry into force on March 7, sho...
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Complaints about criminal content on the internet soared to 17,493 cases in Germany last year, almost double the previous year and a new record, the German internet association eco reported on Tuesday. Violence of a sexual nature and transgressions directed at minors made up 78.9% of cases, with a further 11.7% concerning other sexual transgressions seen as illegal under the relevant legislation. Alexandra Koch-Skiba, head of eco's complaints unit, described the increase, in particular in the area of sexual violence directed at minors, as shocking. "But it also makes clear that our society is ...
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