The Changing Climate of EU Accession to the ECHR – Consequences and Challenges for Climate Change Litigation?
The year 2024 marks a significant milestone in climate change litigation, with ECtHR delivering its first judgment recognizing a violation of a State’s positive obligations to ensure adequate protection against the harmful effects of climate change. While the judgment in
Personal Data for Lunch?Food for Thought on Processing Children’s Biometric Data in Schools in Light of the GDPR
How can fingerprint-based entry to a school cafeteria lead to discrimination? The Polish Data Protection Authority (DPA) shed light on the legal limits of processing biometric data by imposing a fine of PLN 20,000 (~EUR 4,700) (~HUF 2,000,000) on a
Surveillance Capitalism—What Do We Really Use Artificial Intelligence For?
As the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data-based technologies continues, their impact on our everyday lives will become more and more visible. At the same time, AI-based developments are not only affecting our lives in terms of convenience
Human Nature, Hate, Speech Platforms, and the DSA. A “How To” Guide to Limit Harmful Content on VLOPs
As Bertrand Russell—way before the digital media’s age—observed, “few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.” This implicated the essential need for human beings to hate others to achieve their own happiness, thus having
A Fundamentally Unsound Approach to Fundamental Rights Protection? Where Directive 2019/1 Went Wrong in Empowering National Competition Authorities
There are a number of anticompetitive practices in the European Union (EU), both agreements (Article 101 TFEU) and abuses of dominant positions (Article 102 TFEU). The EU competition law infringements are tackled either by the EU Commission or national competition
Opportunities and Potential Challenges for Developing Countries Under EU Due Diligence Standards
Introduction When it comes into force, the CSDDD may have a massive impact on products exported to the EU. In other words, the measure may impact all the EU imports from least developed countries, estimated to be US$ 76 billion as
Freedom or security – The US Supreme Court to uphold the TikTok ban but what happens after the Inauguration?
In the United States, more than 170 million people use the globally spread platform, TikTok. This represents about half of the US population. Despite its popularity, the United States is about to ban the platform from the country as of
Flooded with Vacation? – Climate Leave for Climate Catastrophes and Weather Anomalies Introduced in Spain
Spain – as a coastal country – has been facing different weather anomalies in the past decades but this year, these adverse events gained significant media attention globally and also cause great crises within the country. To deal with this
The state of Faith in a State of faith: Poland’s Stance on Religious Neutrality
Europe has always been diverse in terms of religion, with this diversity deeply rooted in its history. The Central and Eastern European (hereinafter: CEE) region exemplifies this, being historically and geographically influenced by various religious traditions. These religions and beliefs have
Small Language Models, Big Impact: The New Way of AI
The development of artificial intelligence has brought significant advances in the field of language models in recent years. These models can generate texts that are deceptively like human language usage. They can also analyze texts efficiently and translate between languages
