Today in European Digital
A Berlin court rules that Amazon's contact address has to work
Amazon listed an email address in its legal notice that did not work. A Berlin court has now ruled that this violates Germany's Digital Services Act, as Heise reports. The reasoning fits in one line: consumers must be able to contact a company directly and efficiently, not just via logged-in accounts.
This is digital services law doing its least glamorous job, and its most useful one. Fines make headlines. Most people will never be party to one, but many will at some point need to reach a platform that would rather they did not. A company that routes every question through its own account system decides when, and whether, it answers. The ruling takes that choice away from Amazon.
The day's biggest number comes from the stock market. Nvidia is nearing a 6 trillion dollar valuation, driven by AI demand and a record buyback, The Next Web reports. It is now just 300 billion dollars short. Europe's most valuable company needs the same amount to reach its first trillion. That company is ASML. The AI boom is paying its biggest rewards somewhere else.
Businesses…
Citrix NetScaler admins face an attack they cannot yet patch. A new zero-day exploit is crashing the devices and enabling code execution, Heise reports. The exploits target the latest version of the operating system via SAML requests, so being up to date offers no cover this time. Until a patch ships, the timetable belongs to the vendor, not to the IT team.
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Why this matters for European digital sovereignty
A ruling about an email address is a small thing, and that is its value. The credibility of Europe's digital services rules depends on whether ordinary obligations hold when a platform finds them inconvenient, and a working contact address is about as ordinary as obligations get. One judgment in Berlin is a start, not a pattern: it concerns one company in one member state. For it to amount to more, other courts and regulators have to apply the same reasoning to other platforms. The marker to watch is plain enough to check: whether a working email address appears in Amazon's German legal notice.
Sources
- A Berlin court ruled that Amazon's non-functional impressum email address violates Germany's Digital Services Act · Heise Online
- Nvidia nears a 6 trillion dollar valuation while ASML needs 300 billion dollars to reach its first trillion · The Next Web
- A zero-day exploit crashes Citrix NetScaler devices and enables code execution, with no patches available yet · Heise Online
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