Denmark’s culture minister, Zenia Stampe, put a bill before the Folketing on 8 October banning publication of realistic digital imitations of a person’s appearance, voice and movements without consent. She proposes effect from 1 January 2027. It is the second attempt: the prior version lapsed in Danish elections, after the 31 March 2026 and 1 … Read more
Changing banks is often delayed by recurring bills: electricity, insurance, salary and rent. Spain has a regulated, free service with fixed deadlines that makes both banks move those arrangements. You request it only at the new bank; all holders sign. It is free between providers in Spain, and the completion date cannot precede six business … Read more
At checkout, a new phone often comes with an “all-risk” insurance offer. The deciding question is rarely asked: would the policy pay if the handset vanished from a café terrace table while you looked away? With many policies, no. Robbery and theft differ: force, violence or intimidation against a person is treated separately from a … Read more
An unused gym membership, a shocking electricity bill, a debit from a firm you have never heard of: for any direct debit, you can ask your bank to send the money back, and the law gives the bank a deadline to answer. The rules come from Spain’s Royal Decree-Law 19/2018 on payment services, which transposed … Read more
Spain’s customer-service law exists, but its most visible duties are still phasing in. Law 10/2025 of 26 December, regulating customer support, took effect on 28 December 2025. Firms have twelve months from then to adapt. The right to a person and the three-minute average wait limit therefore become fully claimable only at the end of … Read more
Parents and teachers in Spain asking whether minors can use chatbots, and with what protections, must compare company terms with data-protection law. By October 2026, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude set different age floors, while Spain’s 14-year consent rule survives a reform that died in Congress. Key Point: Organic Law 3/2018, Article 7, lets minors consent … Read more
This guide is for travellers booking a holiday flat or house who need the camera rules. It covers Airbnb’s policy since April 2024, Booking.com’s customer terms, Spanish law, arrival checks and what to do if a device should not be there. A platform rule protects you only when compliance is easy to verify. Airbnb simplified … Read more
Spanish mobile users who find a bill entry for additional-rate services, premium messages or an unremembered subscription can stop those charges at source. Customers in Spain may ask their operator, free of charge, to disconnect additional-rate services, including SMS-based ones. The right has existed in telecoms regulation since 2002; it is arguably the most effective … Read more
OpenAI has expanded advertising inside ChatGPT to 26 additional countries, raising the platform’s stated availability to 89 markets. The rollout, announced on October 21, 2026, is concentrated in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and it arrives roughly eight months after the company began testing ads in the United States. For Spanish users, the service reality … Read more
Online shoppers rely on star ratings, but the legal ground beneath them is shifting. In Spain, publishing or commissioning fake reviews has been an unfair commercial practice since May 28, 2022. From late 2025, sites that display reviews must ensure they concern products or services bought or used in the previous 30 calendar days. Regulators … Read more