Artificial intelligence and its effects on human society are the main topics of the moment, while challenging both IT and legal researchers. Humanity has reached a point where it must accept the role of artificial intelligence and assimilate it, adapting its value system, legal framework and economy to the new reality. In April 2021, the European Commission announced its firm intention to develop and adopt legal measures and rules that ...

Although it has a significant impact on the decision-making process of the Romanian state authorities, in Romania the lobbying activity is, more than often, regulated by vague, unclear, disparate or incoherent legal provisions. At the political level, it is necessary to take a decision on the regulation of the field of interest representation, either by adopting the looser European regulatory model or the clear and rigorous North American one....

The case of Fashion ID, C-40/17 refers to one of the tools made available to users, companies, which process personal data for social networks. The article emphasizes the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, of the interpretation of the rules of the European Union through the preliminary ruling. The conclusion is that between continuity and novelty in the interpretation of the concept of operator in European Union law, the C...

In C-645/19 Facebook Ireland Ltd and Others v Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit, the Court confirmed that only the lead Data Protection Authority can act against a controller, another supervisory authority can only initiate proceedings against a controller, provided that this power is exercised in one of the limited situations where the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 confers a competence to adopt a final decision, and provided that the cooperation and...

The processing of biometric data resulting from the illegal surveillance of employees at work is certainly one of the most common practices of operators, and the violation of the provisions established by art. 5 para. (1) lit. a) reported to art. 6 para. (1) of the General Data Protection Regulation must be strongly sanctioned. A last paradigmatic case is that of the operator Glove Technology SRL, a company specialized in consulting services, s...

The right of withdrawal in consumer law is seen as a technique by which the legislature compensates the unequal balance of power at the time of concluding the contract by giving the consumer the opportunity to quietly examine the consequences of his purchase, to get information about the price of equivalent products or to consult with his family or his entourage, thus allowing the consolidation of consent. In point of legal nature, the right o...

The article debates the issue of the admissibility as evidence, in labour disputes, of clandestine audio or video recordings, without the aggressor’s consent, made by the victim of the intrusive and/or abusive conduct, as a form of harassment. In practice, the difficulty is given by the doubt of the courts regarding the admissibility of such recordings, obviously not wanted and not authorized by the aggressor, coming from the circumstan...

According to the provisions of Article 2298 (1) of the Civil Code, the benefit of division represents the right recognized to the guarantor, in the case that there are more obliged guarantors for the same debt, to request the creditor to first divide its action and reduce it to each share. Plea of the benefit of division appears to be a limitation of the rule established under the provisions of Article 2297 of the Civil Code, according...

The year 2020 was an important one for data protection and cybersecurity, first of all as a result of the intervention of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, a context that made it difficult for authorities, data controllers, data subjects, but also boosted the use of the Internet. Using applications increases the risk of data security breaches. The authors propose a useful radiograph to practitioners, but also to the genera...

This study aims to highlight the main differences between the formation of contracts governed by the general regulatory framework and the emergence of legal relations on the stock market, but especially the inoperability, in principle, of causes of nullity or revocation of share transfer operations performed on the stock market, as compared with the nullity of common legal acts, with an emphasis on the impossibility of applying the principles...