On Thursday 17 July, the European Commission opened a public consultation and a call for evidence to gather opinions that will inform the presentation of the future ‘Digital Fairness Act’ early next year.
The latter, which MEPs have long been calling for (see EUROPE 13645/12), is intended to tackle the grey areas of online consumer protection, such as addictive designs of digital services, misleading interfaces (‘dark patterns’), practices deemed toxic in video games - such as ‘loot boxes’, paid virtual currencies or ‘pay-to-win’ systems - which allow users to progress faster in exchange for real money, and advertising that targets minors.
This regulation has already been criticised by certain lobbies, including the CCIA Europe, which accuses it of being ineffective, as the issues it intends to tackle are already covered by numerous existing regulations (see EUROPE 13638/14).
The public consultation and call for evidence are open until October.
See link: https://aeur.eu/f/hx4 (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)