Traduction de «Consommateurs captifs » (Français → Anglais) :

captive consumer | captive customer

consumer protection [ consumerism | consumer policy action plan | consumers' rights ]

European Consumer Centres Network [ Consumer Information Office | ECC-Net | EEJ-Net | euroguichet-consommateurs | European consumer information agency | European Extra-Judicial Network ]

consumer to consumer transactions (1) | consumer to consumer (2) [ C2C | C to C ]

consumer movement [ consumer association | consumer organisation | Consumer associations(ECLAS) ]

consumer-to-business e-commerce | C2B e-commerce | C2B electronic commerce | consumer-to-business electronic commerce | consumer-to-business commerce | C-to-B e-commerce | C-to-B electronic commerce | C2B commerce

consumer-to-consumer transactions | C-to-C transactions | C2C transactions

Well, if there is no shortage as the industry claims, then it must be yet another case of price gouging by an industry that targets a captive consumer during a time of need.

7. Considers that securing data portability, integrity, confidentiality, availability, reversibility and interoperability of services, platforms, and infrastructures forms a great challenge, given that all of these are essential for the stimulation of innovation and competition; calls on the Commission to ensure that cloud providers do not lock-in cloud users to their own services, and that users retain full control over their data and can switch to another service upon request, without undue delay, free of charge and without the loss of data; considers that overcoming these challenges is essential for building consumer, business and public sector confiden ...[+++]ce in cloud-based services and unleashing their full potential.

Online gambling combines several of such risk factors related to problem gambling. For instance, online operators are able to offer a wide variety of games (betting, roulette, poker, slot machines, etc) and to introduce new games regularly, using new marketing and targeting techniques, involving the latest data research technology on the customers’ (spending) behaviour, keeping the consumer ‘glued’ to the screen.

20. Calls on the Commission to deliver a stronger policy in the field of ICT, reminds of the key role of standardisation to enable interoperability and to avoid consumers lock-in; reminds in particular of the importance of open standards; deplores that consumers in Europe can access less content and calls therefore for new online business models to be created; draws attention to the need to design the European patent system in a way as to reconcile access with innovation, and to study the economic impact of a European patent system on SMEs;