The attempt to establish a common European framework for core platforms’ duties and responsibilities towards other actors in the digital environment is at the core of the recent scholarly debate surrounding the Digital Markets Act (DMA) proposal. In particular, the everlasting juxtaposition...

Purpose: This study aims to discover the legal borderline between licit online marketing and illicit privacy-intrusive and manipulative marketing, considering in particular consumers’ expectations of privacy. Design/methodology/approach: A doctrinal legal research methodology is applied...

In light of the harmful and wide-ranging effect of the coronavirus pandemic, many governments in the European territory and on the global framework rushed to introduce forms of financial support for those groups that are susceptible to be economically affected by the current situation in order...

In recent years, the debate about smart contracts, the blockchain, and their interaction with the law has been constantly intensifying, resulting in a vast multiplicity of contributions that try to deal with these new technologies, the role they are likely to assume in the society, and their...

Online commerce experienced a technological revolution, shifting towards automated, data-driven technologies for the allocation and display of offers and advertisings. The introduction of tracking and targeting technologies that leverage consumer data to personalize marketing catalysed the...

Can we achieve an adequate level of explanation for complex machine learning models in high-risk AI applications when applying the EU data protection framework? In this article, we address this question, analysing from a multidisciplinary point of view the connection between existing legal...

As the attainment of sustainability goals arises as a pivotal – and desirable – format in the development of financial markets the role of the State in favouring this process becomes multifaceted and complex to decipher. In order to promote a favourable environment for sustainable...

The commodification of digital identities is an emerging reality in the data-driven economy. Personal data of individuals represent monetary value in the data-driven economy and are often considered a counter performance for “free” digital services or for discounts for online products and...

This article offers a new perspective on the boundaries between health and non-health data in the age of “Quantified-Self” apps: the “data-sensitiveness-by-computational-distance” approach — or, more simply, the “sensitive-by-distance” approach. This approach takes into account two...