Detriment in the digital age
April's Consumer Green Paper promises to be the talking point of the summer.
Posted 12 May 2018 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Consumer Goods and Services|National
ANALYSIS: The Government's consumer markets Green Paper places digital platforms, data and online markets at the centre of reform, prompting trading standards to consider how local enforcement must evolve for the digital economy.
If you thumb through Modernising Consumer Markets, the Government’s Green Paper, you may notice that only Chapter 3 has the word ‘digital’ in the title. However, as you absorb the details you soon find a paper that is extremely ambitious about data and digital markets and everything that means for modern consumers. Throughout its five chapters and 21 questions the themes of online platforms, pe...
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