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“Dark patterns” targeted by EU institutions

new tech law blog

“Dark patterns” used by online platform providers have been controversial for some time, but recently there has been a growing buzz about them, in particular due to actions undertaken by EU and national data protection and consumer protection authorities. What are “dark patterns”?

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Is the full potential of generative AI in legal practice being inhibited?

Legal Tech Innovation Wales

Various pieces of legislation apply to AI, for example, UK data protection laws refer specifically to automated decision-making and the processing of personal data. This means that chat bots like Harvey are not able to process client data, without clients first opting-in to having their information used in this way.

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Navigating Legal Factors for U.S. Companies Entering the E-commerce Market in Africa

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

The African Union (AU) member states and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member states are obligated to respect, protect, and promote the right to privacy and personal data protection, as stated in their declarations and conventions. [12] 2007), [link] U.N. 15] Ultimately, U.S. on Trade and Dev.,

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FinTales Issue 32: Anti-money laundering laws, Data Bill & Fintechs

Ikigai Law

It claimed that since it isn’t classified as a ‘payment system’ under the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007 (by the RBI), it shouldn’t be classified as one under the PMLA either. Main Course : Deep dive stories on card network portability, and impact of the data protection bill on fintechs. The data law is nearly here!

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Digital Markets Act with Professor Jürgen Kühling

Berkley Technology Law Journal

He holds the Chair for Public Law, Real Estate Law, Infrastructure Law, and Information Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Regensburg since 2007. So if you’re a new entrant and you want to go into competition with those companies, one way to sort of lower the barriers to entry would be that you get access to those data.

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Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast: Digital Markets Act with Professor Jürgen Kühling

Berkley Technology Law Journal

He holds the Chair for Public Law, Real Estate Law, Infrastructure Law, and Information Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Regensburg since 2007. So if you’re a new entrant and you want to go into competition with those companies, one way to sort of lower the barriers to entry would be that you get access to those data.

Law 100