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TikTok Agrees to Improve EU Consumer Rights, Avoiding Potential Sanctions
Regulation // June 21, 2022

TikTok will be boosting protections aimed to help children avoid persuasive ads on the platform, Reuters reported Tuesday (June 21). TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, has faced several complaints from various European Union consumer groups, and the company faced the possibility of sanctions. In 2021,...

BEUC Backs Proposal To Ban Screen Scraping
Banking // July 12, 2017

BEUC, the European consumer interest group, is asking banking authorities to stop the practice of screen scraping, or using software to copy data off a website, reported Finextra. According to the news report regarding the intrusion of data privacy, BEUC is backing the creation of a...

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EU Consumer Group: Social Networks Allowed Misleading Crypto Ads

June 08, 2023
Europe’s consumer advocacy group says four leading social networks permitted misleading ads for cryptocurrency. That’s the subject of a complaint filed Thursday (June 8) against Twitter, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube by BEUC and nine of its members. “These social media companies are responsible for allowing misleading advertisements of crypto assets (‘crypto’) to multiply on their […]

TikTok Agrees to Improve EU Consumer Rights, Avoiding Potential Sanctions

June 21, 2022
TikTok will be boosting protections aimed to help children avoid persuasive ads on the platform, Reuters reported Tuesday (June 21). TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, has faced several complaints from...

BEUC Backs Proposal To Ban Screen Scraping

July 12, 2017
BEUC, the European consumer interest group, is asking banking authorities to stop the practice of screen scraping, or using software to copy data off a website, reported Finextra. According to...