There are gaps in the current law with regard to liability for AI systems. This applies not least to the liability of the manufacturer. The article examines to what extent these gaps are closed by the current proposals for an AI Liability Directive and a new Product Liability Directive, and identifies the need for more ambitious legislative acts.

In January 2023, the Digital Operations Resilience Act (“DORA”) came into force as part of a consolidated digital operational framework for companies active in the financial services sector. The effects of this new framework will be felt outside the EU too as businesses operating cross border will have to deal with the challenge of simultaneously complying with regulatory requirements in multiple jurisdictions. This article aims to work out and compare the most essential operational resilience requirements applicable in the top three financial marketplaces of the world (Frankfurt, London and New York), in order to raise cross-border operating companies’ awareness in this respect and outline a general guideline on how to deal with the challenges of DORA, in particular.

Against the rising tide of cyberbullying, hate speech and other harms online, the EU’s DSA and the Chinese PMIPCS each aim to create a uniform framework dealing with four key challenges: (i) illegal or harmful online content, (ii) liability of intermediaries for third-party content, (iii) protection of users’ fundamental rights and (iv) information asymmetries between intermediaries and their users. This article compares relevant regulations of the PMIPCS with the DSA and reveals their limited common ground.

Based on a case study of three major digital platforms, this article explores the ways in which privacy and related values feature in platform community guidelines in light of guarantees in international law. It finds that platform community guidelines tend to diminish international privacy protections by offering privacy safeguards that are increasingly stratified, conditional and incomplete. In conclusion, key stakeholders ought to tackle this emerging trend in platform privacy rules to maintain the human rights equilibrium.