Social media platforms will be prohibited from accessing children under the age of 13 under a new ‘EU Kids Act’ adopted by the EU Commission to enhance the online safety of children in Europe.
The European Commission has published practical guidance to help manufacturers, developers, and businesses of all sizes meet their obligations under the Cyber Resilience Act.
The European Commission has sent social media giant TikTok preliminary findings indicating that TikTok accounts of minors do not meet safety standards required under the EU’s internet rules.
EU states have given the final green light to a regulation allowing online service providers to resume voluntary detection and removal of child sexual abuse material on their platforms.
The European Commission has fined Google a total of EUR 890 million for favouring its own services on Google Search, and for steering consumers towards alternative channels on its own Google Play.
Google must offer AI competitors equal access to features on Android devices, and third-party search engines must have access to its search data, the EU has stipulated.
The European Commission has signalled its acceptance of social media giant X’s action plan to comply with transparency obligations and researchers’ access to data, under the EU’s internet rules.
