News and Research articles on European UnionOn the inadequacy of the risk-based approach for generative and general purpose AI.
Despite the European effort to solve the problem of press financing through copyright reform, some media outlets among other in Hungary, take their destiny in their own hands.
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 research investigates EU member states’ preferences and coalitions in recent negotiations of the Council of the EU related to the digital single market.
How to provide society with legal protection against the harm caused by AI? Considerations against the background of tort liability in Polish and European law
This commentary provides first reflections on the recently published proposal for a Digital Markets Act and its prohibition of discriminatory rankings.
Although the GDPR paves the way for a coordinated EU-wide legal action against data protection infringements, only a reform of private international law rules can enhance the opportunities of data subjects to enforce their rights.
The percentages and figures used in the impact assessment accompanying the European Commission’s e-evidence package strongly influence the analysis of the problem and limit the assessment of the problem of cross-border access to e-evidence to technical and efficiency considerations.
Facing fragmentation of digital space in the Snowden aftermath, this article considers regulatory models available to avoid the balkanisation of the internet.
The European Commission recently released its first review of two years of application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). René Mahieu and Jef Ausloos do not agree with the largely positive self-assessment and explain their main points of contention by summarising their own submission to the Commission.
A proposed amendment to the Lithiuanian Electronic Communications Law aims to grant governmental authorities with access to mobile location data.
The Covid-19 pandemic is challenging public health, economic and social life across Europe. Yet aspiring authoritarians are living a dream. Pandemic is a perfect excuse to interpret basic rights at will.
Is the “European approach” an adequate response to the challenges of disinformation and political manipulation, especially in election periods?
Information and communication technologies allow tax administrations to gather and process large amounts of data in order to individuate tax evaders. However, how to strike a balance between privacy rights and tax compliance?
Can an algorithm fire you? Data rights of workers need to take centre place in the future of work debates. If they are not sufficiently protected, we might have to make rules more specific to the workplace.
The countering of terrorism propaganda online, through private companies, may little by little kill our right to freedom of expression.
Attaining transparency and accountability through the right of access is a struggle; Is there a way forward through using the power of the collective?
Given the weakness of consent-dependent agreements in relation to profiling and prediction markets, consumer protection needs improvement.
This article distils from the various (proposals for) platform regulation operational principles that can serve as the basis for productive debate on the subject.
The German Federal Government is holding on to the German national law on data retention passed in 2015. In this op-ed, Volker Tripp of Digitale Gesellschaft argues that this attitude is untenable.