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What legal remedies does a foreigner in Poland have after receiving a refusal for a temporary residence permit (pobyt czasowy)?
I am looking for a precise explanation of the legal steps available to a foreigner in Poland who receives a refusal (decyzja odmowna) in a temporary residence permit case (pobyt czasowy).
Under the ...
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What features of a website is a search engine allowed to discriminate upon by the DMA?
Google is being investigated for demoting commercial content provided by third parties and published on news media sites. This is explained as:
Under the rules of the Digital Market Act (DMA), which ...
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Are there consequences for acting in breach of the EU Cyber Resilience Act, for entities not subject to fines?
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) imposes responsibilities on entities involved in the supply of digital products to the European market. These can apply to free and open-source software were the ...
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Can a company be liable under the GDPR for actions done by volunteers?
Can a company, in general, be liable under the GDPR for actions done by volunteers?
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A company makes use of volunteers who are given access to personal data, each of whom has entered a ...
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Does making website access decisions on IP address make a web site a data controller?
Suppose the situation is:
Alice requests personal data from their service provider Bob Inc.
Bob Inc. uses a third party service like Sharefile to distribute the data
To access this data, there are ...
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Can a purchase be advertised as “refundable without a fee”, if all ways to request the refund incur a fee?
I am currently trying to get a refund for a cancelled booking with Iberia Airlines (booking and flights all within Spain; I am an EU citizen + resident). I booked the “flexible” fare type, advertised ...
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The European Accessibility Act and Administrator-Only Pages
The European Accessibility Act states that organizations that have customers in Europe and have at least 10 employees must publish an accessibility statement, even organizations that are not ...
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What is the principle of non-liability in the European Union wrt the US Section 230 and social media?
Al Jazeera reports on attempts to sue social media platforms in Africa for human rights harms. They say:
Up to this point, the idea that a social media platform can be held accountable for content ...
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Can an employer perform deep packet inspection under the GDPR?
My employer is using zScaler software to protect network connections, including performing deep packet (SSL/TLS) inspection. This is in the EU. My question is to what extent this is allowed under the ...
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Deception in Contract and Consumer Right
I have the following situation. Portal A advertises renting a flat from some start date to some end date. Consumer agrees to the conditions and pays the reservation fees. The the portal A directs ...
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What effect does a statement "We will not do X" have on a data controllers right to do X?
I shall use the real example that prompted this question, but the question is only out of interest, I am not going to take any action.
TEMU requires a phone number to place an order. They have the ...
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How broadly does age verification allow personal data sharing?
Web sites are required to have age verification by July in the UK, and in recent days the requirements for the tech has been in the news from the EU and Texas.
One method approved by the UK regulator ...
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If someone tells you something might happen, do you know it happened for the purpose of the GDPR Art. 14?
Suppose Alice, a natural person residing in the UK/EU, patronises Bob Inc. and gives Bob her email address. Bob says "I might give this to Charlie Co.". After she leaves Bob Inc. does in ...
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How can a person verify if agents it is interacting with are legitimate holders of government authority? [duplicate]
Additional context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_R%C3%BCmeysa_%C3%96zt%C3%BCrk
On March 25, 2025, 30-year-old Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was taken and detained by six masked ...
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What does the law state regarding how long Google can and must retain EU citizen credit card info used for age verification?
Google has user age verification using a credit card, I wonder how long they legally can or must retain the credit card data (or data of the transaction if not of the CC) for a EU citizen?
Since it's ...
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