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Tag: E-commerce

Tag: E-commerce

Artificial Intelligence applied to e-commerce: EU Parliament’s perspective

In this article we delve into EU Parliament’s analysis on Artificial Intelligence applied to e-commerce. This article is Part II of our “AI and retail” series. In Part I we talked about how AI could help the retail industry and provide opportunities to minimise the impact of COVID-19 while respecting privacy and the ethical principles.

Code of EU Online Rights published

The Code of EU Online Rights is a document outlining online consumer rights and principles that exist in European legislation, offering simple, transparent and understandable explanations of the legal rights and obligations of EU citizens.

European Court of Justice rules against anti-piracy filter

The European Court of Justice has ruled that a social network cannot be made to install an anti-piracy filtering system.The judgment comes after SABAM, a Belgian institution that manages the copyright of  Belgian writers and composers wanted Netlog, a Belgian social networking website with some 94 million registered international users, to install a filtering system

Proposed unified European sales law to boost trade, including eCommerce

The European Commission has proposed an optional Common European Sales Law that is to transcend barriers to cross-border trade in the EU. The law now needs to be approved by EU Member States and the European Parliament.

Online shopping in the EU increases despite legal barriers

The  European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection has published a study on consumer behaviour in a digital environment that analyses consumer behaviour and the interaction between consumers and businesses online, examining how consumers benefit from the digital environment and whether and how they change their purchasing behaviour.