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… Zoekresultaten 17 februari 2020 door: J.M. Smits in Law This blog reports about recent visits to all departments and support groups. It also contains some highlights of the last few weeks. In the last two months I visited, together with our managing director Brahim Ait Mellouk, all Faculty groups. The goal of these eight meetings with colleagues was to inform everyone about … the trophy they brought home to the Oud Gouvernement . Maastricht Young Academy Colleagues Lilian Tsourdi and Mark Kawakami were elected as new members of the Maastricht Young Academy. On 6 February, our colleague Marta Pertegás gave a Maastricht Star Lecture for alumni in München. MoU with Leuven and FPN We also finalised an agreement with Leuven University and the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience about exchanging students in the areas of psychology & law and criminology. Exciting times ahead. And I started trying to learn Maastrichts. Which is why I bid you Unne gooje vastelaovend allemaol . More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: law J.M. Smits Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, …
… platforms’ responsibility to protect its users in situations similar to Molly’s . His advocacy also resulted in the United Kingdom’s government applying pressure to various social media companies to remove harmful content. In this regard, health secretary Matt Hanock indicated that a failure on behalf of the platforms to do so could mean a stricter regulation of platforms in the United Kingdom. The response of Instagram to the public outcry concerning this topic was to remove a large variety of content that could be connected to self-harm and to broaden the scope of the type of material to hide from its users, in the hopes of offering better protection . It is widely accepted that minors, in particular, have to be safeguarded from certain content that circulates online. How this protection of children through community guidelines on various social media platforms is achieved will be outlined in the following sections. … in the wake of a viral TikTok challenge . For these reasons, TikTok pays enormous respect to the protection of its underage users. But let us take a step back and look more generally at the content restrictions aimed at protecting minors on those websites. Naturally, one of the most pressing issues and the specific limitation is that no content is allowed that, in any way, sexually exploits or endangers children. If such content is detected on any of these websites and is deemed potentially …
… Zoekresultaten 12 maart 2021 door: A. Unknown in Law M-EPLI, along with the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab and the Institute of Data Science, hosted the online webinar ‘Researching Discrimination in E-Commerce and Online Advertising’ on the 4th and 5th of March 2021. Throughout the two-day event, speakers from different countries, institutes and disciplines addressed discrimination issues present in online … justifications and offer flexibility to make way for new developments. After the discussion, Prof. Dr. Hans Micklitz (University of Helsinki) was the second speaker on the first day. Referring to his work , he discussed personalised advertising, and started by establishing that the personalization of marketing leads to the universal and structural vulnerability of consumers and increases imbalance. To define personalization, he relied on a composite of four different elements: 1) basic information … visible to the user. After a discussion round and a break, the following presenter was Prof. Dr. Christo Wilson (Northeastern University, USA), who discussed algorithm auditing in the Amazon Buy Box. The Buy Box is a feature of the Amazon website which prominently features a certain seller for a specific item, and is particularly important, seeing as 80-90% of buyers purchase the product via the Buy Box. Prof. Wilson found that the Buy Box algorithm considers the lowest price and the …
… Zoekresultaten 22 december 2017 door: C. Peristeridou in Law It would have been rather uncomfortable for the Court to rule that the Italian limitation periods for serious VAT-fraud cases should be set aside, wouldn't it? Can Taricco II be, after all, just a temporary (and unstable!) bridge over the troubled waters of the EU’s financial interests, soon to be calmed all down once the PIF is implemented? Written by Christina Peristeridou and Jannemieke Ouwerkerk. Cross-posted on the Verfassungsblog The recent CJEU judgment in M.A.S., M.B . (hereinafter Taricco II ) raises more questions than it answers on when Member States can apply higher standards of rights in criminal proceedings. Previous case law, i.e. Taricco I and Melloni , pervaded the primacy of EU law, but from Jeremy F. we also know that Member States enjoy a margin of discretion to apply their own standards of fundamental rights protection, where the rules at stake – an appeal suspending the …
… it with these infantile antics!” Although Nieuwenhuis was certainly right in claiming that any quantitative score cannot replace assessment of quality, today’s university is hard to imagine without rankings. Not only academics, also universities and faculties are regularly classified on basis of quantitative data. An important ranking is the annual The Times Higher Education World University Ranking . It not only contains a ranking of the 500 best universities in the world (Maastricht University … ranks first, followed by Cambridge, Yale, Oxford and Chicago. Interestingly, the first 26 law schools are all in English-speaking countries or territories. Our Faculty ranks at place 40, up from place 61 in 2018 and 46 in 2019. No less than four law faculties from The Netherlands are in the top 40: next to Maastricht these are Leiden, Amsterdam (UvA) and Utrecht. The only other law school on the European continent in the top 40 is Leuven (at spot 31). The first German law faculty (Frankfurt) ranks … How to assess this ranking? Should we be happy? Next to the objections of Nieuwenhuis, we all know how it works with such rankings. Who does well, tells the world; who drops in the ranking, keeps it silent. We therefore proudly shared the news on our website and via Twitter . However, more important than the place in the ranking are the underlying data and whether we can learn anything from these. What is the methodology of THE ranking? The ranking is based on 13 performance indicators that each …
… a downward price spiral by de facto announcing market prices from 2013 to 2018. While reiterating that monitoring online retail prices by suppliers is, in and of itself, permitted, ACM found that the market transparency resulting from price-comparison websites, retailers’ online stores, and spider software allowed Samsung to analyse carefully the price fluctuations of its own television models and contact retailers, if necessary. Taking the Decision as a starting point, the question is how competition law should classify vertical information exchange on pricing when it is enabled or facilitated by web crawlers, price comparison sites and spider software. Does such exchange of information warrant a more flexible approach under competition law, or, as adopted by the ACM in Samsung, a stricter approach? From an economic perspective the question …
… Memorandum , the DSA is intended as an umbrella instrument that is supposed to tackle a wide array of issues arising on digital markets (e.g. illegal content; smart contracts). One of its central issues relates to the proliferation of online (targeted) advertising, which the European Parliament made clear ought to be one of the areas of reform, so to create less dependence on and exploitation of algorithms toward consumers and citizens. Tackling the harms associated with online profiling … objective. Indeed, much of Big Tech platforms’ power, market dominance and other market actors’ dependence derives from their monetization of user data for the advertising purposes. Yet in the past five years, the section of the advertising industry targeted by the DSA has slowly but steadily been complemented by a new form of advertising, now ubiquitous on social media. In a nutshell, it reflects a fascinating and complex new iteration of the gig-economy: any Internet user can monetize their … and platforms intermediate demand, supply and sometimes payments. Many types of specific business models have lent their name to the description of this new form of advertising, such as ‘influencer’ or ‘affiliate marketing’. If the bridling of harmful targeted advertising is a core objective of the DSA, the exclusion of influencer marketing is a grave oversight. Amendments introduced by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee in the European Parliament may remedy this omission, but …
… Zoekresultaten 2 september 2015 door: J.M. Smits in Rechtsgeleerdheid Gisteren maakte Staatssecretaris Mansveld bekend dat de Staat voornemens is om in hoger beroep te gaan tegen de uitspraak van de rechtbank Den Haag in de veel besproken Urgenda-zaak. Zoals bekend oordeelde de rechtbank in die zaak dat Nederland de CO2-uitstoot in 2020 … Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience Science and Engineering Universiteitsraad … Gisteren maakte Staatssecretaris Mansveld bekend dat de Staat voornemens is om in hoger beroep te gaan tegen de uitspraak van de rechtbank Den Haag in de veel besproken Urgenda-zaak. Zoals bekend oordeelde de rechtbank in die zaak dat Nederland de CO2-uitstoot in 2020 …
… United States, it seems that for the moment no legal options remain, at least not for data that could be of interest to the intelligence and security services. That would include in any case data stored in cloud services (think about Dropbox, Amazon Web Service, Google Cloud, etc.) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instragram, etc.). Further guidance on what to do, as well as announcements on new negotiations between the EU and the U.S. to find a political solution, are expected in the coming … if more safeguards are possible or if the only option is to bring the data back to Europe and stop the export all-together, at least for the time being. Written by Paul Breitbarth visiting Fellow at ECPC , and director of EU Policy and Strategy, TrustArc - More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: ECPC privacy data protection LBM Andere blogs: General Alumni Arts and Social Sciences Business and Economics Corona Heath, Medicine and Life Sciences Law Maastricht Students Psychology and Neuroscience …
… law has materialised in the United States. This February, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission reached a far-reaching settlement in favour of consumers . The company has to fully compensate misled consumers through a combination of repair, monetary compensation and buy-backs. But, in the Member States of the EU, the experience with the use of unfair commercial practices law appears to have been mixed. The Italian competition authority fined Volkswagen for unfair commercial practices after … and Vladislav Perenič v. SOS finance spol. s r.o) could apply in this constellation. However, there is also the individual consumer litigation that is heavily pushed for and that could help consumers to have their losses compensated. The website www.my-right.de , which is maintained by the American litigation law firm Hausfeld, has been initiating consumer law disputes against the distributors of VW cars and against Volkswagen with a view to obtaining damages via individual (model) …