Beyond consent: improving data protection through consumer protection law

Open consent, biobanking and data protection law: can open consent be ‘informed’ under the forthcoming data protection regulation?

This article focuses on whether a certain form of consent used by biobanks--open consent--is compatible with the Proposed Data Protection Regulation. In an open consent procedure, the biobank requests consent once from the data subject for all future research uses of genetic material and data. However, as biobanks process personal data, they must comply with data protection law. Data protection...

One-Way Contracts: Consumer Protection without Law

What if consumer contracts were legally enforceable only against the consumers, but not against the business? This paper, part of my project on the ‘myths of consumer protection,’ describes a regime of ‘one-way contracts’–contracts between consumers and business to which only consumers are bound, the business is not. A breaching business would face no contractual liability. The paper argues tha...

Protection of consumer rights in Cyberspace

Today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation in ...

Consumer Protection

n this article, I survey the state of the mortgage loan transfer system, the legal rules that govern it, and the widening gap between those rules and the practices in the secondary mortgage market just prior to the 2008 crisis. The review includes some empirical assessment of the extent of errors and execution problems; the damage done by “robo-signing;” the Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys...

The Protection of the Consumer Under Modern Sales Law