TikTok details how it’s taking further action against hateful ideologies
TikTok said on Wednesday it’s strengthening its enforcement actions against hate speech and hateful ideologies to include “neighboring ideologies,” like white nationalism and others, as well as statements that emerge…
Facebook trials expanding portability tools ahead of FTC hearing
Facebook is considering expanding the types of data its users are able to port directly to alternative platforms. In comments on portability sent to US regulators ahead of an FTC hearing…
Further delay to GDPR enforcement of 2018 Twitter breach
Twitter users have to wait to longer to find out what penalties, if any, the platform faces under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for a data breach…
On illegal hate speech, EU lawmakers eye binding transparency for platforms
It’s more than four years since major tech platforms signed up to a voluntary pan-EU Code of Conduct on illegal hate speech removals. Yesterday the European Commission’s latest assessment of…
Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy internet content rules
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend, where he spoke about the kind of regulation he’d like applied…
Facebook’s use of Onavo spyware faces questions in EU antitrust probe — report
Facebook’s use of the Onavo spyware VPN app it acquired in 2013 — and used to inform its 2014 purchase of the then rival WhatsApp messaging platform — is on…
UK’s competition regulator asks for views on breaking up Google
The U.K.’s competition regulator has raised concerns about the market power of digital ad platform giants Google and Facebook in an interim report published today, opening up a consultation on…
Tech giants still not doing enough to fight fakes, says European Commission
It’s a year since the European Commission got a bunch of adtech giants together to spill ink on a voluntary Code of Practice to do something — albeit, nothing very…
EU-US Privacy Shield passes third Commission ‘health check’ — but litigation looms
The third annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield data transfer mechanism has once again been nodded through by Europe’s executive. This despite the EU parliament calling last year for…
Europe’s top court sets new line on policing illegal speech online
Europe’s top court has set a new line for the policing of illegal speech online. The ruling has implications for how speech is regulated on online platforms — and is…