Cyberpunk digital illustration of DAC7 tax directive with neon accents and futuristic circuitry.

DAC7 and the Digital Platform Economy: When Tax Transparency Meets Market Reality

  • August 17, 2025
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  • 8 minute read
The EU’s DAC7 Directive reshapes tax transparency in the platform economy. What began as targeted gig-economy oversight now extends to almost every digital marketplace transaction—rental, goods, and services alike. Platforms must collect, verify, and report seller data under complex OECD XML rules, facing cross-border inconsistencies and high compliance costs. The result: greater fiscal transparency, but also higher barriers for start-ups and unintended advantages for incumbents.
Samsung executives holding EU RED Cybersecurity Certification framed documents, depicted in cyberpunk neon style — symbolic critique of EU RED Regulation and its impact on openness and innovation

EU Radio Equipment Directive: Balancing Security and Openness

  • August 14, 2025
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  • 12 minute read
The EU’s Radio Equipment Directive has shifted from a radio-focused safety law into a full-scale cybersecurity regime. From August 1 2025, manufacturers face strict new requirements under the EN 18031 standards—transforming how connected devices handle security, privacy, and fraud prevention. But the same rules also fuel controversy over bootloader locks, innovation barriers, and conflicts with Right to Repair and platform-openness goals.
Dystopian street scene showing futuristic consent terminals outside shops with queuing frustrated people, representing how cookie consent systems became surveillance infrastructure.

The Consent Paradox: How EU Regulations Enabled Corporate Data Harvesting

  • July 21, 2025
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  • 7 minute read
The European Union's cookie consent rules & guidelines, designed to protect user privacy, have paradoxically created a sophisticated surveillance infrastructure controlled by eight to ten Consent Management Platform companies. This legal essay examines how GDPR compliance requirements enabled corporate data harvesting on an unprecedented scale, with academic studies showing 85% of consent interfaces violate basic privacy requirements while websites using professional consent systems deploy 6.9 times more tracking technologies than those with basic implementations. Rather than protecting European citizens from surveillance capitalism, these regulations have institutionalized "consent theater" that legitimizes expanded data collection under the guise of user choice.

Understanding the New Era of OTC Markets Regulation

  • January 25, 2025
  • 964 views
  • 3 minute read
An analysis of EMIR's evolution from crisis response to market reform. Examining how EU law balances systemic risk with building domestic clearing capacity through EMIR 3.0's changes.

Ανοιχτή Επιστολή: Επικείμενη παραβίαση του απορρήτου των επικοινωνιών από το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο

  • June 8, 2023
  • 3.5K views
  • 9 minute read
Δεν χωρεί αμφιβολία και δισταγμός ότι η κακοποίηση των παιδιών αποτελεί το πιο απεχθές αδίκημα και να πρέπει να συνεχώς να βρίσκουμε τους πόρους και να εφευρίσκουμε νέους καινοτόμους τρόπους σε σχέση με την πάταξή του. Ωστόσο χρησιμοποιώντας αλγορίθμους χωρίς να τους κατανοούμε ή να μπορούμε με ακρίβεια να ελέγξουμε τις εκροές τους και προσπελάζοντας αδιακρίτως όλες τις ιδιωτικές συνομιλίες όλων των χρηστών δεν είναι μια καλή λύση. Μια τέτοια διευθέτηση αποτυγχάνει σε όλα τα κριτήρια αναγκαιότητας και αναλογικότητας.

EU couldn’t tame the …snail

  • September 1, 2022
  • 2.1K views
  • 2 minute read
Let’s suppose the UK’s decision to exit the European Union somehow reflected the belief that the parliamentary sovereignty was curtailed by the supremacy of EU law. Then why there isn’t a complaint about the curtailed by the Common Law?

When the GDPR goes wrong…

  • September 13, 2020
  • 12.1K views
  • 9 minute read
This article discusses the unseen danger when the EU data-commissioners start capriciously implying the vague text of GDPR.

Χίλια Corallia και ένας Tayyip

  • January 6, 2020
  • 2.2K views
  • 3 minute read
Η Κυβέρνηση ως Επιχειρηματίας διαθέτει ένα πλεονεκτήματα, το οποίο εκ των πραγμάτων κανένας ιδιώτης επιχειρηματίας δεν διαθέτει.