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During the programme Touche pas à mon poste broadcast on C8 on 5 February 2024, a female studio guest spoke about a rape that she said she had suffered. Clearly vulnerable, she was questioned for around 20 minutes about a highly traumatic episode in her life. Even when she found it difficult to continue speaking, the programme presenter and pundits continued to ask her questions, some of which were intrusive, for around six minutes. Despite the guest’s obvious despair and distress, the editor failed to cut the interview short or even stop it temporarily to give her time to compose...

Following a previous article on the provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) at interinstitutional level (IRIS 2024-1:1/9), the co-legislative procedure to adopt the Act is ending. On 13 March 2024, the European Members of the Parliament (MEPs) backed the regulation by 523 votes in favour to 46 against and 49 abstentions. The text is now to be adopted by the Council of EU.   The AI Act will enter into force twenty days after its publication in the official journal. As a regulation, the text is directly applicable to the legal order of member states of the European...

On 27 February 2024, the European Parliament adopted, by 470 in favour to 50 against (and 105 abstentions), the proposal for a regulation on the transparency and targeting of political advertising. This much-anticipated proposed regulation was first published by the European Commission in November 2021, and had been planned to enter into force by April 2023, a year before the 2024 elections to the European Parliament, to be held on 6-9 June 2024 (see IRIS 2022-1/12). However, the legislative procedure moved slower than planned, and in February 2023, amendments were adopted by the parliament on...

On 9 February 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union published an order in a case opposing Bytedance to the European Commission. On 5 September 2023, the European Commission designated Bytedance, which provides the entertainment platform TikTok through local subsidiaries, as a gatekeeper under Article 3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Commission based its decision in particular on the fact that the applicant met the quantitative thresholds and that it had not demonstrated the existence of circumstances which would render the conditions for the designation of a gatekeeper...

Designed to improve the protection of the image rights of children whose parents publish photographs and videos of them on social media, the law “guaranteeing respect for children’s image rights” was published in the Official Journal on 19 February. This practice, known as ‘sharenting’, carries various risks, including online identity fraud, blackmail, cyberstalking, child prostitution and child pornography. The Child Influencers Act of 19 October 2020 was a first step in protecting the image rights of children who appear in videos posted on social networks. However,...