What does a recent decision by the European Union’s Court of Justice – ruling that IAB Europe is liable under the GDPR for a technical standard it wrote – mean for internet standard-setting organisations?
News and Research articles on EU law
This piece examines the urgent need for a harmonised approach to balancing the rights to freedom of expression and information with the right to personal data protection under the EU legal system.
Avatars, as emanations of human identity, do not at the moment enjoy a regulated legal status. This article specifies legal tools for creating digital identity and their limitations.
This opinion piece argues that current attempts at platform regulation will fall short if they continue to focus on platform size, or if they remain limited to particular normative silos.
This article discusses national legislation applicable to disinformation, and the implications for EU policy and fundamental rights.
In this article, I propose a distinction between individual harm, collective harm and societal harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and focus particularly on the latter. By listing examples and identifying concerns, I provide a conceptualisation of AI’s societal harm so as to better enable its identification and mitigation. Drawing on an analogy with environmental law, which also aims to protect an interest affecting society at large, I propose governance mechanisms that EU policymakers should consider to counter AI’s societal harm.