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MaRBLe Seminar on AI-assisted Consumers: Shedding Light on Dark Patterns

6 March 2023
How does EU consumer laws address dark patterns on the Internet? This topic has been part of the scholarly debate during the panel discussion “The AI-assisted consumer”, organized on 6 December 2022 in collaboration with Glaw-Net and IGIR.
by:
- Esra Kaplan
in Law
Digital Vulnerability of the AI-Assisted Consumers

17 February 2023

The widespread use of AI-assisted technologies in the digital sphere has given rise to the concept of digital vulnerability, as a contextual vulnerability experienced by internet users. This phenomenon sparks debate about whether the current legislative framework is sufficient to ensure effective...
Do institutions help achieve greater value for spending European taxpayers’ money?

19 October 2020

The European Union (EU) budget is about one percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of all Member States amounting to about €240 per annum, per citizen. The EU budget redistributes more than €150 billion annually. These funds are directed towards agriculture and regional policy, which operate to...