Friday, 28 January 2011

Happy Data Protection Day!

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Thursday, 27 January 2011

(Un)acknowledged legislators

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In celebration of today's Dutch poetry day, tomorrow's European data protection day and tomorrow's tomorrow's European contr...

Viviane Reding on cloud computing and data protection

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“Cloud computing conjures up images of floating zeroes and ones – data liberated from the desktop and drifting effortlessly from one server ...

Second chance for UK

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While Sweden has been referred to the ECJ, the UK has received a second chance as far as the proper implementation of the Consumer Credit Di...

Swedish dilemma

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The European Commission referred Sweden to the European Court of Justice for inadequate transpotition of the Directive 2002/65/EC on the dis...
Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Consumers - patients

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The European Parliament voted on 19 January in favor of the EU Directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare. John Dalli, Eur...
Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Is it fair?

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The web page www.isitfair.eu contains practical information for consumers on how to check if they have fallen victim to an unfair commercia...

Hedgehogs online

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A brief follow-up to last week's post on consumers' fundamental rights and Dworkin's 'Justice for Hedgehogs'. On the we...
Monday, 24 January 2011

And then there were two...

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EU Member States formally adopted today the latest draft of the proposal for Consumer Rights Directive (read: European Commission's pres...

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten (B. Franklin)

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Guardian has an interesting article today by Heather Connon: " Bank customers need more protection against bad investment advice "...