AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona elaborated today on the notion of a producer under the Product Liability Directive (Directive 85/374) in the case Ford Italia (C-157/23). A consumer in this case purchased a Ford Mondeo car from Stracciari, Ford’s dealer in Italy. The car itself was manufactured by Ford WAG, a German company, which used another company, … Read more
Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky is shutting down its office in the United Kingdom and laying off its staff, just three months after the company started closing down its U.S. operations and laying off dozens of workers, TechCrunch has learned. Kaspersky spokesperson Francesco Tius said in an email to TechCrunch that the company “will commence a … Read more
In the Opinion in Kolin Inşaat Turizm Sanayi ve Ticaret (C-652/22, EU:C:2024:212, hereafter ‘Kolin’), Advocate General Collins has argued that only economic operators established in countries party to international agreements on public contracts that bind the EU may rely on the provisions of Directive 2014/25/EU. This would imply that economic operators established in other countries … Read more
The global digital payments landscape, projected to hit $16.6 trillion by 2028, is grappling with a surge in security breaches and scams, with U.S. consumers reporting losses of $1.8 billion due to bank transfer and payment scams in 2023 alone, according to a new report from Chubb. Despite widespread adoption, only one in three users … Read more
Landgericht Hamburg Criminal Justice Building by Andrew Milligan sumo from flickr CC BY 2.0 Last week, the District Court of Hamburg, Germany, held a hearing in the first European case to examine the legality of using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative AI models. The case centers on LAION e.V.’s (a German non-profit … Read more
