IDP professor publishes article on the topic: Privacy damage in platform mergers: lessons from Brazil.
Privacy Harms in Platform Mergers: Lessons from Brazil Introduction In recent years, several antitrust authorities have expressed increasingly significant concerns about the degradation of privacy in digital markets. 2 Influential commentators argue that antitrust and privacy policies are now converging on their goals of protecting individuals […]
Effectiveness of fundamental rights in private internet relations: the dilemma of content moderation on social networks from a comparative Brazil-Germany perspective.
This article investigates how the theory of the horizontal effect of fundamental rights has been applied in judicial decisions regarding content moderation on social media in Brazil and Germany. It finds that, in Brazilian law, there is no clarity as to whether the application of the doctrine of direct effect in matters of content moderation would be appropriate.
Course on comparative constitutional jurisdiction: Brazil and Germany
This week, the course on comparative constitutional jurisdiction: Brazil and Germany is taking place at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The photo shows Professors Thomas Vesting, Gilmar Mendes, and Ricardo Campos.