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“Hopefully COVID-19 will be gone at some point, but tracking technologies may stay for longer and permanently hamper the rights and freedoms of individuals”.
… 2020 to address various structural and behavioural conducts of the so called ‘gatekeepers’, based on a framework entailing certain qualitative/quantitative thresholds, novel remedies and investigatory tools. DMA Proposal has gone through the Parliamentary review ending up with a number of amendments in December 2021 and now is through trialogue between the EU Council, Parliament and Commission. In the UK, the regulatory process has been initiated by the Competition and Market Authority (CMA)’s …
… the incentives that the law provides them with in order to motivate consumers to bring cases against companies violating contract and consumer law, i.e., that consumer receives 50% of the fine imposed on a company if he wins the case. Prof. Franziska Weber from Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam presented an experimental project she has been working on together with Tim Friehe and Leonie Gerhards. In this project, Prof. Weber addresses a very topical yet rather neglected issue that arises when people share their personal data, i.e., when sharing their data, people reveal information not only about themselves but also about third parties (e.g., their friends or family). In other words, a decision that may seem like a decision about our own privacy usually also affects the privacy of others. Prof. Weber wanted to learn whether people care about that, i.e., whether the knowledge that the decision affects the privacy of third parties decreases people’s willingness to share their data. The experimental results revealed that if sharing personal data …
… with funny analogies. One learns, for instance, that “the runner who trips up one of his opponents is unquestionably cheating, but it is doubtful that such misbehaviour would ordinarily attract the epithet ‘dishonest’”; and “[t]he stable lad who starves the favourite of water for a day and then gives him two buckets of water to drink just before the race, so that he is much slower than normal, is also cheating, but there is no deception unless one manufactures an altogether artificial …
… blogpost is based on the chapter ‘EU agencies’ which appears in P. De Bruycker, M. De Somer & J.L. De Brouwer (eds.), From Tampere 20 to Tampere 2.0: Towards a new European consensus on migration (2019). More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht Labels: TARN MCEL International and European law Miscellaneous E. Tsourdi Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi is tenured Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Migration Law and Governance at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University and the Maastricht Centre …
… 2014 door: M.T. Kawakami in Law The Harvard Professor v. The Chinese Restaurant During the first lecture of the popular Comparative Contract Law course here at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law, MEPLI’s Jan Smits – the course coordinator – starts off by cautioning the first-year students. He states that when one commences the study of law, they will start seeing the world through “law goggles” where everything and anything we see becomes a potential legal issue: a banana is no longer just … that has received some viral attention highlights this point. The dispute (which has yet to make it to court) is about a Harvard Business School professor (with a BA, JD and PhD all from Harvard) who ordered some Chinese delivery. The restaurant’s website listed an old menu (with cheaper prices), which failed to reflect the increased price on their new menu. This meant that there was a $4 discrepancy between what the professor (who ordered online) expected to pay and what the restaurant charged … law professor who was “cheated” out of $4 and is now on a vigilante crusade against the restaurant) or the “accused” (the family owned Chinese restaurant that is simply trying to make ends meet, but did not have the resources necessary to keep their website constantly up to date). If the dispute goes to court (as the professor threatens in his email), a strict textbook analysis of the case is relatively straightforward: the professor bases his damage claim on Massachusetts General Law, Section XV, …