In 2006, a considerable amount of US-based beekeepers noticed that large numbers of bees were abandoning their colonies, leaving the queen bees and an inadequate number of bees behind. This phenomenon was named Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and was initially blamed on genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). When this suspicion wasn’t substantiated scientifically, the blame was shifted […]
While European and Asian airports offer innovation and entrepreneurship, making them the envy of the world, America languishes due to government control of virtually the entire airport infrastructure. Though the United States is by far the strongest economy in the world, our airports leave something to be desired. Wherever you fly domestically, terminal buildings are […]
Give responsibility to individuals Bill Wirtz is a policy analyst for the Consumer Choice Center. Twitter: @wirtzbill The measures that the World Health Organization suggests to tackle diseases caused by malnutrition, tobacco or alcohol are not only contrary to consumer choice, they also do not achieve their objectives. Excessive price increases and branding bans have fostered […]
Renforcer la responsabilité des opérateurs de réseaux pour les vulnérabilités technologiques et créer un cadre de certification souple permettront de garantir à la fois le choix du consommateur et le respect de sa vie privée. Par Mikołaj Barczentewicz, chercheur associé au Consumer Choice Center, et Bill Wirtz, analyste de politiques publiques au Consumer Choice Center. […]
Renforcer la responsabilité des opérateurs de réseaux pour les vulnérabilités technologiques et créer un cadre de certification souple permettront de garantir à la fois le choix du consommateur et le respect de sa vie privée. Par Mikołaj Barczentewicz, chercheur associé au Consumer Choice Center, et Bill Wirtz, analyste de politiques publiques au Consumer Choice Center. […]
The Consumer Choice Center announces the release of a policy note on consumer privacy and cybersecurity in Europe. The policy note discusses current privacy threats for European consumers in the light of the emergence of the Internet of Things and the rollout of 5G networks. The authors Mikolaj Barczentewicz and Fred Roeder suggest a multifactorial […]
Transport for London receives the April 2019 BAN Award for rejecting an advertisement designed to run on the London Underground because it contained bacon, butter and jam. Previously, on the 25th of February 2019, junk food advertising was banned on the entire Transport for London (TfL) network. Since then on, food and drink brands “will […]
The urgent need to lower drug prices s has become a rare consensus issue in Washington. But how to achieve this goal is another story. Now, Congress has an opportunity to make a smart fix to something it inadvertently broke. Like medications themselves, policy initiatives can remedy real problems. But they always come with the […]
Die Autoren der Studie schlagen einen multifaktoriellen Ansatz vor, um Verbraucher und deren Daten in Zeiten massiv erhöhter Vernetzung zu schützen. Das Consumer Choice Center hat eine Studie zum Thema Datenschutz und Netzsicherheit in Europa veröffentlicht. Speziellen Fokus legen die Autoren auf den Kontext IoT und den Ausbau von 5G-Netzen. Die Autoren, Mikołaj Barczentewicz and […]
Das Consumer Choice Center gibt die Veröffentlichung einer neuen Studie zum Thema Datenschutz und Netzsicherheit in Europa bekannt. Die Studie befasst sich mit aktuellen Gefahren für Datenschutz von europäischen Verbrauchern. Dies geschieht besonders im Rahmen der aktuellen Diskussion um das Internet of Things und den Ausbau von 5G Netzen. Die Autoren, Mikolaj Barczentewicz und Fred […]
