The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU : Act-ification, GDPR Mimesis and EU Law Brutality at Play (Paperback)

Acknowledgements vii

1 Introduction 1

The change of paradigm in the EU’s regulation of digital technologies: ‘act-ification’ at play 13

2 Popular names instead of alphanumeric titles for EU laws regulating digital technologies 15

3 The titles of EU legal acts 22

4 Is act-ification useful? 28

‘GDPR mimesis’ in (all?) EU regulatory initiatives related to digital technologies 39

5 ‘GDPR mimesis’: has the success of the GDPR dulled the EU legislator’s imagination? 41

6 The EU data protection model and its embodiment in the GDPR 54

7 Is GDPR mimesis useful for the regulation of digital technologies? 64

The ‘brutality’ of EU legislation on new digital technologies 71

8 The ‘regulatory brutality’ of EU law when regulating digital technologies 73

9 Basic principles of EU law and the regulation of digital technologies 85

10 Why is regulatory brutality a problem when regulating digital technologies in the EU? 95

A new paradigm for EU law 105

11 The current reality of digital technologies in Europe 107

12 The European way for the digital age 120