Search results : 978

On 16 June 2025, the District Court of Central Netherlands issued a preliminary relief ruling, holding that the Dutch public broadcaster AVROTROS does not have to grant the Dutch Media Authority (Commissariaat voor de Media) access to two confidential research reports concerning workplace safety. The request for preliminary relief was brought by AVROTROS following the Media Authority’s request to inspect the reports regarding social safety and governance within the organisation drawn up by external parties in 2023. These reports formed the basis for AVROTROS’s action plan, which...

Following the formal proceedings initiated on 19 February 2024 to evaluate potential breaches of the Digital Services Act (DSA) by TikTok, the European Commission issued its preliminary findings on 15 May 2025, stating that TikTok appeared to be in violation of the Act. An in-depth investigation, involving the analysis of internal company documents, testing of TikTok's tools, and interviews with experts in the field, led the Commission to find that the platform had failed to fulfil its obligation to publish an advertisement repository. The Commission considers that TikTok's advertisement...

On 27 May 2025, the European Commission opened formal proceedings against four pornographic platforms: Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos. Breaches of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in relation to the protection of minors online are suspected of having been committed by the platforms. The risks detected relate in particular to the following:  - Appropriate and proportionate measures to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security for minors, in particular with age verification tools to safeguard minors from adult content. - Risk assessment and mitigation measures regarding...

The Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims at regulating digital services and combating illegal content online, has been fully applicable across Europe since 17 February 2024. In Luxembourg, Bill No. 8309 on the implementation of the DSA was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Députés) on 2 April 2025, and the law entered into force on 11 April 2025. According to Article 2 of the law, the Luxembourg Competition Authority was officially designated as the competent authority for the application of the DSA, thereby assuming the role of Digital Services Coordinator (DSC)....

On 2 May 2025, the Irish Data Protection Commission released a decision finding that TikTok infringed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the transfer of personal data of its users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission concluded that the transfers violated the GDPR’s requirements for cross-border data transfers and its transparency obligation. Personal data may be transferred to countries outside the EEA if those countries ensure an adequate level of data protection, either through a European Commission “adequacy...