The Digital Services Act: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/digital-services-act
Europeans and Americans talk past each other while rivals watch. The EU can set its own standards, but in an interconnected economy, decoupling fantasies and grandstanding won’t help.
Last week the European Commission preliminarily found TikTok may breach the DSA over “addictive design” (infinite scroll, autoplay, push alerts, personalised feeds). If upheld, it could mean a fine up to 6% of global turnover.
As the US-EU 90-day tariff pause nears its end, digital tensions remain unresolved. Despite growing pushback from startups and Member States, the European Commission stays firm on its digital agenda - from the DMA and DSA to the AI Act's rollout.
In posting a letter online to Elon Musk, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton receives the most epic Twitter/X ratios of all time.
Elon Musk wants X to be the premiere free speech platform. But this trajectory is completely at odds with the aims of the EU's regulatory playbook. And this battle is far from over.
On July 1, 2024, Hungarians will take over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Belgians. We reviewed the Hungarian Presidency's agenda to summarize points which are relevant to the tech and telecommunications sector.
Regulators and consumer groups across the EU have already been expressing concerns about a myriad of potential Temu’s consumer protection violations, including misleading practices when consumers see big differences between what is advertised and what is realistically delivered to them.
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