UNCTAD announces the development of a digital tool that will help protect consumers in the digital age How are countries protecting your rights as a consumer and adapting them to the global marketplace? This is one of the many questions addressed in UNCTAD’s Peer Review on Consumer Protection, the first of its kind. …
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European Court of Justice hears consumer collective action case against Facebook – 19.07.2017
On 19 July, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) is holding a hearing about an Austrian collective action against Facebook. Max Schrems, the Austrian data protection campaigner, has brought a case to court in Austria on behalf of 25,000 Austrian and foreign consumers to claim compensation from Facebook for violation of their privacy rights. …
EPRS – Towards new rules on sales and digital content Analysis of the key issues
EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service In 2015, the Commission presented two proposals for directives: on the online sale of goods to consumers, and on the supply of digital content to consumers. The legal basis for the proposals is Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), which empowers the…
Il parere dell’EDPS sulla tutela dei diritti fondamentali nell’era dei Big Data
Nel settembre 2016 l’European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), autorità garante europea per la protezione dei dati personali, ha pubblicato un parere concernente la tutela dei diritti fondamentali nell’era dei Big Data. Il Parere, che fa seguito alla “Preliminary Opinion on Privacy and competitiveness in the age of big data” del 2014, evidenzia le connessioni tra…
The European Collaborative Economy: A research agenda for policy support
Abstract Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society – a precondition for good policy. To foster a…
Collaborative Economy – Study of the IMCO Committee (2017)
Abstract This proceedings summaries the workshop chaired by MEP Nicola DANTI on collaborative economy. The workshop is a part of the overall work done within the European Parliament in order to deal with this new form of economy in the context of the Single Market. This document was prepared by Policy Department A at the…
DRAFT REPORT on a European Agenda on the Collaborative Economy
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Rapporteur: Nicola Danti “The Rapporteur recognises the important opportunities and benefits of the collaborative economy for the society and economy; at the same time, he is attentive to the potential challenges and is especially concerned by the possible risk of fragmentation of the Single Market while large…
E-commerce News
Alcuni miei articoli di quest’anno sull’e-commerce (e link) Le proposte della Commissione UE per la crescita dell’e-commerce e del mercato unico digitale, luglio 2016. E-commerce: la raccomandazione OCSE sulla protezione del consumatore, giugno 2016. E-commerce e contraffazione: i recenti provvedimenti AGCM, maggio 2016. Paypal: il suo Programma protezione Acquisti e il procedimento conclusosi presso…
E-commerce e impresa: opportunità, normativa e sicurezza
L’impresa e il commercio elettronico: opportunità, normativa, sicurezza, a cura Giovanni Ziccardi, Pierluigi Perri e Silvia Martinelli, Camera di Commercio di Milano, Servizio Studi, Ricerche 2014. Link alla RICERCA Link al VADEMECUM
Ciberspazio e Diritto: i miei articoli e l’ultimo numero
Ciberspazio e Diritto. Rivista internazionale di Informatica Giuridica. I miei articoli Aspetti contrattuali del commercio elettronico: il contratto telematico e la disciplina del codice del consumo in materia di contratti a distanza alla luce delle recenti modifiche in vigore da giugno 2014 L’articolo affronta i principali aspetti rilevanti in materia di contratti conclusi online….
