Software and product repairs to be subject to product liability in the EU (www.consilium.europa.eu)

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EU brings product liability rules in line with digital age and circular economy

Today [2024-10-10] the Council adopted a directive to update the EU’s civil liability law. The new liability rules better take into account that nowadays many products have digital features and that the economy is becoming increasingly circular.

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[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 weeks ago

Wait what? This looks BIG!

[-] timroerstroem@feddit.dk 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Yeah, I'm assuming developers in the big software companies are donning lifejackets due to the amount of palm sweat from the C-suites.

[-] misk@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

I only develop simple internal tools but I imagine this means either lots of new developer jobs or cutting down the scope of software a lot.

But if you think that’s bad, just imagine how AI companies feel like. Ahahaha.

[-] timroerstroem@feddit.dk 5 points 4 weeks ago

Indeed, Poul-Henning Kamp of bikeshed and BSD fame got a nice little discussion thread started yesterday over on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bsdphk@fosstodon.org/113317528662477344

this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024

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