European Commission targets Meta and TikTok for violating landmark DSA rules

The European Commission has issued preliminary findings accusing Meta and TikTok of violating the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark regulation designed to enhance online safety and ￰0￱ findings mark the first time Meta has been formally accused under the ￰1￱ investigation reveals that both platforms failed to provide adequate access to public data for researchers, hindering efforts to assess their impact on public health and safety. Additionally, Meta is accused of implementing deceptive design practices, known as “dark patterns,” that make it difficult for users to report illegal ￰2￱ practices contravene the DSA’s requirements for straightforward “Notice and Action” ￰3￱ response, a Meta spokesperson contested the claims, stating that the company had already implemented changes aligned with DSA ￰4￱ EU urges tech firms to comply with the regulations set The EU has established several regulations to govern large tech ￰5￱ example is the Digital Services Act, which limits the influence of these tech ￰6￱ have also discovered that the EU’s executive branch has been initiating multiple investigations under another significant law, the Digital Markets ￰7￱ the commission’s allegations against Meta, individuals in the tech ecosystem have raised heated ￰8￱ address these concerns, Ben Walters, a spokesperson for the tech company, stated that they disagree with any claims filed against them regarding the alleged violation of the ￰9￱ further pointed out the company’s efforts to find a common ground on the situation as they were still negotiating with the European Commission on these ￰10￱ reporters asked Walters to comment on their operation, the representative stated that since the introduction of the DSA in the European Union, they have made several adjustments to their content reporting options, appeals process, and tools for data access.

Therefore, with these changes in place, Walters believes that Meta meets the law’s ￰11￱ declined to comment on a request from reporters. Still, the EU emphasized that it is important for researchers to access information from social media ￰12￱ enables the public to examine any tech-related physical or mental health ￰13￱ finds itself in trouble again with the EU In preliminary findings, the commission noted that Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok may have implemented complex procedures and tools that hindered researchers from seeking public ￰14￱ a result, researchers regularly end up with incomplete or unreliable data, making it hard for them to study whether users, including young people, are exposed to illegal or harmful ￰15￱ tackle this issue, the Commission has called on these tech firms to review its findings and reply in ￰16￱ the Commission’s initial findings are correct, it can make a non-compliance decision, which could ultimately lead to a fine of up to 6% of their total yearly revenue ￰17￱ is a significant amount for Meta and ByteDance, the parent company of ￰18￱ the meantime, Ireland’s privacy regulator earlier imposed a substantial fine of about €530 million, equivalent to around $601.3 million, on ￰19￱ was after they alleged that the tech company had transferred users’ data in the EU to ￰20￱ to the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which oversees TikTok’s privacy matters in the EU, TikTok violated the GDPR data protection law by sending European user data to ￰21￱ serve as an example to other tech firms with similar intentions to TikTok, the regulator ordered the tech company to ensure its data processing meets the rules within six ￰22￱ also mentioned its intentions to stop TikTok from sending data to China if it does not adhere to the rules set at that ￰23￱ your strategy with mentorship + daily ideas - 30 days free access to our trading program