Claudia Wutscher

@cwutscher.bsky.social

Associate Professor at WU Vienna. Director WU Legal Tech Center. Austrian and European Public Law.

The European Union has triggered Article 122 to indefinitely immobilise the assets of the Russian Central Bank, worth a whopping €210 billion. I explain what just happened and why this is such a big deal for Europeans. 🧵 Long thread.

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Spread the word: Ich suche ab sofort und (vorerst) für 4 Monate eine/n Projektmitarbeiter/in für juristische Recherchen (mind Bakk-Niveau, aber auch nach Diplom/Masterabschluss möglich). Bitte an potentiell Interessierte weitergeben und bei Interesse bitte direkt melden! 🙏

Der EGMR hat heute im Fall Google/RU knappe, aber interessante Aussagen zur Plattformverantwortlichkeit getroffen: Wenn Intermediäre - zB auch durch Algorithmen - Inhalte auf ihren Plattformen kuratieren, haben sie auch Sorgfaltspflichten, die mit zunehmender Reichweite strenger werden können /2

Paragraphs 79 and 80 of the ECtHR-Judgment Google/Russia:
79.  The Court has previously emphasised the specific nature of the Internet as a modern means of imparting and receiving information, recognising that the “duties and responsibilities” imposed on an Internet portal, for the purposes of Article 10 of the Convention, may differ to some extent from those of a traditional publisher in relation to third-party content (see Delfi AS, cited above, § 113). At the same time, the Court notes that when internet intermediaries manage content available on their platforms or play a curatorial or editorial role, including through the use of algorithms, their important function in facilitating and shaping public debate engenders duties of care and due diligence, which may also increase in proportion to the reach of the relevant expressive activity (see paragraphs 49 and 50 above).

80.  In the present case, however, the Court considers that penalising Google LLC for hosting content critical of government policies or presenting alternative views on military actions, without demonstrating a pressing social need for its removal, strikes at the very heart of the Internet’s function as a means for the free exchange of ideas and information.

Very happy to have had Oleksandr Kosenkov from Blekinge Institute of Technology / fortiss with us yesterday for the second event of our brown bag series #TechLawTidbits at WU LTC, sharing some insights from his fascinating research on the role of legal tech in software engineering! 🚀

Oleksandr Kosenkov and Claudia Wutscher in front of a screen with the opening slide of Kosenkov's presentation on "The Role of Legal Tech and Regtech in Software Engineering". Behind Kosenkov, a roll up of WU's LTC.