DSA - investigation opened with regard to Shein, assessing its systems limiting the sale of illegal products, risks linked to addictive design of its service and the transparency of its recommender systems:
Online platforms should be safe for EU children and vulnerable adults: preliminary findings adopted holding that TikTok’s design violates the DSA by applying addictive features such as constant rewards and infinite scrolling, shifting the brain to ‘autopilot’ and leading to compulsive use:
Facts count. Announcement today that Apple Ads and Apple Maps will not be designated under the DMA. Because of their relatively low usage rate in the EU, neither of them qualifies as an « important gateway between EU business users and end users »:
With developments in AI taking place in ever faster speed, it is important that EU markets stay open and innovative. Today, two « fast track » (6 months) specification proceedings were opened to assist Google in complying with the DMA’s interoperability and data sharing obligations👇🏼
Today, WhatsApp, already designated as CPS under the DMA, was also designated as Very Large Online Platform under the DSA. The rules will apply to its ‘Channels’ that allow dissemination to a broad audience. WhatsApp has four months to comply with its obligations as a VLOP:
New investigation launched with respect to X’ deployment of Grok, and on-going investigation into X’ recommender system extended now that X has started to integrate Grok: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Very productive pre-Christmas meeting with the Digital Markets Act High-Level Group:
Good news for EU Facebook and Instagram users: as of January they will have the option to receive ads that are less based on their personal data:
Second set of commitments by TikTok, this time on advertising repositories allowing regulators, researchers and users in general to better identify scams:
Final decision in first X investigation on deceptive design of “blue checkmark”, data access for researchers and transparency on advertising:
Two more candidates for DMA designation to assess during the coming weeks:
In the EU, all online platforms have to offer a tool allowing the reporting of illegal content. Good to know before Black Friday…
Today, further questions were asked to Shein following preliminary indications that illegal goods were offered on their market place in France.
Commission report evaluating the DSA’s interaction with (54!) other EU laws, ia. on data protection and privacy, audiovisual, media, IP, consumer policy and product safety, and demoracy. Great tool for assessing sector-specific legislation in online world:
Another very productive meeting of the European Board for Digital Services with report on prominent risks, 2026 annual work plan, Art 91 DSA report and actions on financial scams:
ICYMI: Yesterday, market investigations were launched on potential designation of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services under the DMA. A third investigation will assess whether the DMA is equipped to address fairness and contestability issues in cloud:
Investigation launched to assess whether Google’s Site Reputation Abuse Policy infringes the DMA’s obligations to apply transparent, fair and non-discriminatory conditions to Google Search's ranking👇
Milestone for independent research into systemic risks stemming from the design and algorithmic systems of very large online platforms’s services for the EUs society:
Under the DSA’s balanced architecture, complaint handling systems, Notice and Action mechanisms and researchers’ access to data are key to ensure that users can challenge platforms’ content moderation decisions and report illegal content in the EU:
Protection of minors: time to see whether and how online platforms are complying with the measures listed in the DSA Guidelines:
Calling for your views on how the DMA can (furter) facilitate contestability of digital markets and AI sector:
A meaningful, specific and well founded risk assessment is key to very large online marketplaces’ compliance with the DSA. Today, the Commission adopted preliminary findings expressing the view that Temu’s risk assessment does not seem to meet that standard:
Great milestone: setting up co-operation with Japanese JFTC on enforcement of digital markets regulation ensuring market contestability and consumer choice:
Great announcements on online protection of minors in the EU: Guidelines on how online platforms should keep children safe and secure on their services, and a blueprint for the roll out of an EU age verification app:
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Between 20 June and 3 July the second series of DMA workshops was held with informative presentations by Gatekeepers and spot-on questions by third parties. ICYMI, recordings available here:
ICYMI: Consultation on the first review of the Digital Markets Act - European Commission- Time flies, we are looking for your views!
The eagerly awaited new rules on access to data by qualified researchers have been adopted! As of October qualified researchers can submit their applications to DSCs via the dedicated Data Access Portal:
Interesting discussion on business opportunities created by the DMA at Gdansk Digital Summit:
