We are moving rapidly to a world without cash. In fact, the phrase war on cash was coined (coins?) by the card companies years ago. The aim was to get everyone moving to cards, not cash. It’s now gone beyond that, as everyone wants us to move to digital wallets. All well and good. The … Read more
Antje Kunst* *Antje Kunst is an international lawyer and barrister of Garden Court North Chambers, admitted to the Bar of England and Wales, and the Bar of Berlin, advising and representing individuals in a wide range of matters related to fundamental rights within the CFSP and other fields. She has appeared in numerous cases before … Read more
Maria Clara Pina (master’s student in Human Rights at the School of Law of the University of Minho) I. Currently, in the so-called era of techno-solutionism,[1] digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), have become widely used.[2] We are witnessing the emerging but rapidly evolving phenomenon of border management and control through the use of new … Read more
The Bouskoura case (C-387/24 PPU), lodged on 4 June 2024 and ultimately addressed by the ECJ on 4 October 2024, brings about significant insights at a point of critical juncture between immigrants’ fundamental rights and procedural matters as regarding asylum seeking and return decisions. The dispute in question involves a third-country national (‘TCN’) who appealed … Read more
Introduction On the 29th of January this year, the General Court dismissed the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) action seeking to annul parts of three decisions issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) (Joined Cases T-70/23, T-84/23, and T-111/23). In these decisions, the EDPB directed the DPC to expand its investigation into the data … Read more
