Digital Safety Commissioner to be appointed in 2018
The Minister for Communications, Denis Naughten, has confirmed that plans to appoint a Digital Safety Commissioner for Ireland (DSC) will go ahead in 2018. The DSC will act as an ‘Internet regulator’,...
View ArticleEuropean Banking Authority Recommendations on Outsourcing to Cloud Service...
Last week MoneyConf firmly put Dublin in the Fintech spotlight. The pressure on financial services firms to make better use of technology to reduce costs and improve customer service shows no sign of...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament agrees new rules to improve fairness of online platforms
On 17 April 2019, the European Parliament approved a new Regulation on platform-to-business trading practices. It requires online platforms and online search engines to comply with certain legal...
View ArticleAdvocate General delivers significant Opinion on scope of host providers’...
In the case of Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Ireland Ltd (Case C-18/18), the Advocate General (AG) of the Court of Justice (CJEU) was asked to clarify the scope of the obligation that may be...
View ArticleE-Commerce platforms not obliged to make telephone number available to consumers
In Amazon EU Case C-649/17, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held that the Consumer Rights (CR) Directive 2011/83/EU does not require an e-commerce platform to make a telephone number...
View ArticleOnline Harms White Paper – UK government publishes its initial consultation...
The UK government has published its initial consultation response on the Online Harms White Paper (see our previous post here). The new regulatory framework proposes introducing a ‘duty of care’ on...
View ArticleDPC publishes Report and Guidance on cookies following a “cross-sector and...
On 6 April 2020, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) published a report on the use of cookies and other tracking technologies (Report) and an updated guidance note on cookies and other tracking...
View ArticleNew Deal for EU Consumers- the Omnibus Directive explained
The new Enforcement and Modernisation Directive 2019/2161, more commonly known as the ‘Omnibus Directive’ (the Directive), aims to strengthen consumer rights through enhanced enforcement measures and...
View ArticleCommission publishes Draft Delegated Act in respect of Audits conducted under...
The Commission has published a draft delegated act on audits to be performed very large online platforms (“VLOPs“) and very large online search engines (“VLOSEs“) pursuant to Article 37 of Digital...
View ArticleThe Bletchley Declaration: further evidence of the global legislative focus...
At the start of November, the UK government hosted an AI Safety Summit, intended to provide a forum for in-depth discussions on the challenges and opportunities of AI technology. It attracted a wide...
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