NEW DELHI: The European Union (EU) on Monday started a formal probe towards TikTok into alleged violations of guidelines to guard minors on-line below a regulation mandating digital content material policing.
“At this time we open an investigation into #TikTok over suspected breach of transparency & obligations to guard minors,” Inside Market Commissioner Thierry Breton stated on X as he introduced the proceedings towards the video-sharing app owned by China’s ByteDance, below the bloc’s new Digital Providers Act.
The EU introduced investigations final yr in November towards YouTube and TikTok to seek out out what motion the US and Chinese language-owned platforms are taking to make sure the security of minors on their platforms.
The European Fee had stated that it despatched formal requests for info to TikTok and YouTube respectively, step one in procedures launched below the EU’s new regulation on digital content material.
The EU’s govt arm stated it needed to know what measures the video-sharing platforms have taken to adjust to the Digital Providers Act (DSA), particularly relating to the dangers posed to kids’s psychological and bodily well being.
The EU’s high tech enforcer, Thierry Breton, had stated in August final yr that “youngster safety will likely be an enforcement precedence” for the DSA.
The regulation has additionally banned focused promoting to minors aged 17 and below.
The EU already launched probes into TikTok, X (previously Twitter) and Fb-parent Meta over disinformation following the October 7 Hamas assault in Israel.
The DSA got here into pressure in August 2023 for 19 websites designated by the EU as “very giant” platforms which have greater than 45 million month-to-month energetic customers, together with Google Search, Fb, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon and Apple’s AppStore.
“At this time we open an investigation into #TikTok over suspected breach of transparency & obligations to guard minors,” Inside Market Commissioner Thierry Breton stated on X as he introduced the proceedings towards the video-sharing app owned by China’s ByteDance, below the bloc’s new Digital Providers Act.
The EU introduced investigations final yr in November towards YouTube and TikTok to seek out out what motion the US and Chinese language-owned platforms are taking to make sure the security of minors on their platforms.
The European Fee had stated that it despatched formal requests for info to TikTok and YouTube respectively, step one in procedures launched below the EU’s new regulation on digital content material.
The EU’s govt arm stated it needed to know what measures the video-sharing platforms have taken to adjust to the Digital Providers Act (DSA), particularly relating to the dangers posed to kids’s psychological and bodily well being.
The EU’s high tech enforcer, Thierry Breton, had stated in August final yr that “youngster safety will likely be an enforcement precedence” for the DSA.
The regulation has additionally banned focused promoting to minors aged 17 and below.
The EU already launched probes into TikTok, X (previously Twitter) and Fb-parent Meta over disinformation following the October 7 Hamas assault in Israel.
The DSA got here into pressure in August 2023 for 19 websites designated by the EU as “very giant” platforms which have greater than 45 million month-to-month energetic customers, together with Google Search, Fb, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Amazon and Apple’s AppStore.
