Recent developments in European Consumer Law

Norwegian Consumer Council and seven European consumer organisations have filed a complaint today against Google, arguing that Google uses ...

The European Union has traditionally aimed to set comparably high standards of privacy and personal data protection. Indeed, the protection...

The latest issues of INsights #18 contains a short article by Joasia Luzak ' Camera, Camera, on the Wall... ' which introduces to t...

A quick update for our readers on the legal guarantees surrounding data flow between EU and US: today, the Commission and the American gov...

Just today, the European Court of Justice declared (Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, C-362/14 ) that the 2000 Commission decision w...

Yesterday the European Data Protection Supervisor published his recommendations on the EU's options for data protection reform - Opinio...

Our readers will remember that since last year's ECJ decision in Google Spain , it is possible for individuals who think certain infor...

Regarding the collective action against Facebook's data protection laws initiated by Max Schrems that we discussed previously the Regio...

Today the Council announced that its ministers agreed to open negotiations with the European Parliament on the new data protection rules. T...

Can (European) consumer law be used to help increase privacy protection online? Other solutions applied so far (e.g. mandatory disclosures ...

Today, the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution pledging to proceed speedily towards the adoption of various anti-terrorism meas...

In the wake of the recent Paris terrorist attacks, anti-terror measures of all kinds have of course gained renewed momentum. In particular...

Mobile banking The Financial Times Adviser discusses the ongoing plans to regulate on the European level mobile banking ( Gettin...

Telecommunication The European Commission announces not to further regulate fixed telephone lines, since the market moved towards...

Good video on dangers to consumers' privacy, on how data is gathered, trafficked and how we remain oblivious to it. See CBS' "...

One of the worries with regards to consumers' privacy protection is that consumers often remain unaware of their data being gathered an...

13 May 2014: CJEU judgment in Google Spain ( C-131/12 ) We have previously discussed the opinion of AG Jääskinenin the Google Spain cas...

With today's decision, the Court of Justice has declared the Data Retention Directive invalid . (see our previous post on the opinion...

Jennifer Golbeck, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, talked at TED about the need to protect our...

Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted the commission-proposed data protection reform package. While the proposed regulation (with 621...