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Christoph Busch

@christophbusch.bsky.social

Professor of Law, University of Osnabrück & Affiliated Fellow, Yale Information Society Project. Digital markets, platform regulation, consumer law.

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Today in Berlin at for a meeting of the German Advisory Council on Consumer Policy. On the agenda: our new position paper on the #DigitalFairnessAct - to be published next week. Stay tuned… #DFA #ConsumerLaw #ConsumerProtection ##ConsumerPolicy

05.09.2025 16:45 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Consumer Law for AI Agents Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has largely been limited to image generation...

🚨New Publication🚨

ISP fellow @christophbusch.bsky.social writes about: "Consumer Law for AI Agents":

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11567

05.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us for the next Berkeley/ELI Transatlantic Conversation on Consumer Protection Law organized by the European Law Institute's Digital Law Group and the UC Berkeley Center on Consumer Law & Social Justice. The discussion will focus on the topic of #darkpatterns.

#DigitalFairnessAct #ConsumerLaw

17.06.2025 19:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Today, the European Law Institute published the Guiding Principles and Model Rules on Digital Assistants for Consumer Contracts (“DACC”) - a blueprint for making consumer law ready for AI commerce.

Here is the link to the full text of the model rules: www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/projects-pub...

19.05.2025 22:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📱How can #DigitalPlatforms design for child safety?

In this article Miriam Buiten & @christophbusch.bsky.social identify guiding principles to ensure children's safety online & highlight best practices to complement #DSA requirements.

Read the full research here 🔗 rb.gy/ddy3nt

07.04.2025 09:16 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Consumer Law for AI Agents Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has

How should consumer respond to the rise of AI shopping assistants? Here are some ideas: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

26.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI With CEO Andy Jassy pushing employees to build AI apps across the company, Amazon is testing new shopping and health assistants.

„Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe, recently began testing a shopping assistant and a health-focused chatbot with a subset of users.“

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/a...

26.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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💡News on the Digital Services Act

📑 CERRE's DSA Implementation Forum unveils a framework to safeguard minors online, focusing on age-appropriate design and age assurance for clearer EU standards.

Read the full research here 👉 rb.gy/2rn51f

#DSA #ChildProtection #CERREInsights #CERREDPS2025

26.03.2025 09:40 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Consumer Law for AI Agents Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has

New paper alert: "Consumer Law for AI Agents" (forthcoming German Law Journal 2025)

How could AI agents change the existing e-commerce landscape and how will they challenge the premises of a human-centric consumer law?

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

22.03.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Platform Responsibility in the European Union (Chapter 3) - Defeating Disinformation Defeating Disinformation - February 2025

ISP Fellow @christophbusch.bsky.social writes about: "Platform Responsibility in the European Union From the E-Commerce Directive to the Digital Services Act"

www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...

26.02.2025 18:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Desk with a view... over Pacific Heights, San Francisco.

Getting ready for this year's Consumer Law Scholars Conference at the University of California, Berkeley later this week.

28.02.2024 00:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here is the full text of the ELI report on algorithmic decision making & consumer contracts: www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/news-events/...

18.12.2023 18:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is EU Consumer Law ready for the rise of digital assistants? Yes, but…

For more details, have a look at our Report on “EU Consumer Law & Automated Decision-Making” published today by the the European Law Institute (ELI) - or join us for a webinar on 31 January 2024 (registration via ELI website).

18.12.2023 14:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Register here for the event: www.europeanlawinstitute.eu/hubs-sigs/si...

05.12.2023 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join us on 7 Dec at 17:00 CET for the inaugural event of the new Transatlantic Dialogues on Consumer Protection organised by the European Law Institute and the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice.

A great lineup of speakers will discuss the new California Delete Act and the GDPR.

05.12.2023 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rounding off my research stay in Scotland with three days in Edinburgh: a visit to the wonderful National Gallery and a coffee with the great @lilianedwards.bsky.social. Really inspiring conversation about the #DSA, #ChatGPT and #GranularLaw...

13.10.2023 21:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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