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Digital Detectives: A Research Agenda for Consumer Forensics
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Consumer law enforcement through computational investigations. – II.1. The CPC Regulation. – II.2. DSA. – III. Computational Measurements of Influencer Activity: a case study for digital enforcement. – IV. Consumer forensics: a new field for digital detectives. – IV.1. Consolidating data collection and...
Regulation of Crypto-assets in the EU: Future-proofing the Regulation of Innovation in Digital Finance
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Regulating innovation in the digitalised age. – II.1. Impact of regulation on innovation. – II.2. Crypto-assets as innovation: a moving target. – III. The regulation of crypto-assets in the EU. – III.1. The MiCA framework, its objectives and challenges. – III.2. Activity- and risk-based approach to...
Digital Libraries Under EU Copyright Law: A Relationship Set in Stone?
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction: libraries and copyright law in the digital networked environment. – II. Digital library developments: institutional organisation, purpose and functions. – III. Assessment: digital libraries under the modernised DSM directive: is EU copyright law currently future-proof? – III.1. Institutional organisation. – III.2...
Targeted Retention of Communications Metadata: Future-proofing the Fight Against Serious Crime in Europe
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction: data retention and future-proofing. – II. “The Lighthouse for Privacy Rights in Europe”? Past and present CJEU case law on communications data retention. – II.1 Retain in haste, repent at leisure: the legacy of Directive 2006/24/EC. – II.2. La Quadrature du Net and Privacy International: from...
Consumer Protection in the Age of Personalised Marketing: Is EU Law Future-proof?
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Personalised marketing and its potential to exploit consumer vulnerabilities. – II.1. Personalised marketing. – II.2. Potential to exploit consumer vulnerabilities. – III. Consumer protection against personalised marketing: shortcomings of the current EU legal framework. – III.1. The Unfair Commercial...
Introduction: Future-proof Regulation and Enforcement for the Digitalised Age
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Abstract: This Special Section is devoted to assessing whether core areas and core values of European law are future-proof (and how they could or should be made future-proof) in light of developments in terms of digitalisation and technological innovation. It is the result of a joint project of researchers at the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and...
Internal Market 3.0: The Old 'New Approach' for Harmonising AI Regulation
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The evolution of the “New Approach” to harmonisation in the EU: setting the scene. – II.1. The “New Approach” to technical harmonisation. – II.2. The Digital Single Market. – III. Harmonisation in the Draft AI Act: old wine in a new bottle, or new wine? – III.1. Risk-based approach of the Draft AI Act. – III...
Market Power and the GDPR: Can Consent Given to Dominant Companies Ever Be Freely Given?
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The Facebook case. – II.1. Case overview. – II.2. The opinion of the AG. – III. Dominance for GDPR purposes. – III.1. Market power and the GDPR. – III.2. Dominance in AG Ranto’s opinion. – III.3. The definition of “gatekeeper” under the DMA. – IV. Dominance and the validity of consent. – IV.1. Freely given...
Introduction. The ECHR in the ECJ’s Case Law Post-Charter: A Dual Perspective
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Abstract: The relationship between EU law and the ECHR has undergone significant changes in recent decades. The EU has developed its own Charter of Fundamental Rights, gained powers to promote specific fundamental rights, and negotiations for EU accession to the ECHR are ongoing. These evolving parameters strengthen the interactions between the EU...