EU Court of Justice finds Malta ‘golden passports’ scheme incompatible with EU law – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

EU Court of Justice finds Malta ‘golden passports’ scheme incompatible with EU law – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

In an interesting and important decision of the Court of Justice of the EU, sitting as a Grand Chamber in Commission v Malta (Citizenship by Investment) [2024] EUECJ C-181/23, the Court has found that Malta’s 2020 ‘investor citizenship’ scheme is incompatible with EU law, in particular with the principle of sincere cooperation enshrined in article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union (‘TEU’) by which ‘the Union and the Member States shall, in full mutual respect, assist each other in carrying out tasks which flow from the Treaties’, and citizenship of the Union at Article 20 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’).

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AI chatbot startup WotNot leaks 346,000 files, including passports and medical records – Go Health Pro

AI chatbot startup WotNot leaks 346,000 files, including passports and medical records – Go Health Pro

An Indian AI startup that helps businesses build custom chatbots has leaked almost 350,000 sensitive files after the data was left unsecured on the web. Ahmedabad-headquartered WotNot left a massive collection of sensitive user information – including scans of passport and identity documents, medical records, resumes, travel itineraries and more – unsecured in a misconfigured … Read more