The European Union is intensifying efforts to enhance shopper safety within the quickly evolving digital panorama. On the identical time, industries are exploring how new technological options can be utilized to safeguard shoppers in revolutionary new methods.
The forthcoming “Digital Equity Act” will impression a variety of industries, from e-commerce to leisure, which might want to adhere to new requirements, together with clear advertising practices and measures to stop addictive behaviours, all geared toward making a safer and extra equitable digital atmosphere for shoppers.
The Fee has additionally launched a health examine of EU shopper regulation on digital equity to evaluate whether or not the present authorized framework is adequate to ensure a excessive degree of shopper safety within the evolving digital panorama.
The place the upcoming implementation of the Synthetic Intelligence Act particularly goals to manage AI techniques and their software in business and the Digital Companies Act (DSA) regulates on-line content material, these new measures search to degree the digital taking part in discipline, handle unfair practices, and guarantee shoppers are completely protected each on-line and offline.
Be a part of this Euractiv Hybrid Convention to debate the safety of shoppers within the digital atmosphere. Inquiries to be mentioned embrace:
– What function does the Digital Companies Act play in holding on-line platforms accountable for making certain a excessive degree of security and privateness for shoppers?
– What function ought to public session and stakeholder engagement play in shaping future digital equity laws to make sure it addresses actual shopper considerations?
– What classes could be realized from the lottery business of their ongoing efforts to safeguard shoppers and forestall addictive playing behaviours?