Meta cannot target a user’s sexual orientation in its personalized ads — even if they are openly queer and make public statements about the subject, the European Union’s highest court ruled Friday. The case was brought from longtime Meta antagonist Max Schrems, as Wired reports. The Austrian activist, whose separate privacy case recently led to … Read more
Alessandra Fratini and Giorgia Lo Tauro, FratiniVergano European Lawyers Photo credit: Namakkalshowroom, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction On 30 May 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment in Conny (Case C-400/22), which concerned the labelling requirements for online order buttons under Article 8 of the Consumer Rights Directive … Read more
Dragoș Călin (Judge at the Bucharest Court of Appeal and Co-President of the Romanian Judges’ Forum Association) The judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the rule of law and the serious fraud against the financial interests of the European Union appear to have been optional for the Romanian courts, … Read more
By Michele Corridor and Michael Abrams The regulation all the time trails behind technological developments. As regulation enforcement surveillance applied sciences have developed from faucets on cellphone cubicles to thermal imaging to GPS monitoring to Shotspotter, courts stay one step behind in responding to technological evolution. The Supreme Court docket of Maryland’s latest opinion in … Read more
Victims’ rights to take part in worldwide prison justice have lengthy been celebrated as empowering victims to have their say, share their experiences, have interaction in truth-seeking, and/or obtain emotional closure. For equally lengthy, nevertheless, many attorneys and NGOs have lamented that sufferer participation erodes the defendant’s rights to a good trial, creates punitive cultures … Read more