Sara Brandstätter

1 week ago | mlex.com | Júlia Tar |Sara Brandstätter

By Júlia Tar and Sara Brandstätter ( May 27, 2025, 11:09 GMT | Insight) -- Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos are facing formal investigations opened by the European Commission today for suspected violations of the Digital Services Act, including failures in age-verification systems and insufficient safeguards to protect minors from explicit content.

1 week ago | mlex.com | Sara Brandstätter |Matthew Newman

By Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman ( May 27, 2025, 06:40 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms will learn today if it can start its Meta AI service in Germany, after the Hamburg privacy watchdog decides whether the company violates the EU’s data protection rules when training its AI model with public social media posts.

1 month ago | mlex.com | Sara Brandstätter |Matthew Newman

By Sara Brandstätter and Matthew Newman ( April 30, 2025, 15:58 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft is pushing the EU and US to conclude talks on accessing electronic evidence in criminal investigations. The company's President Brad Smith told journalists today that negotiators should conclude talks this year. The US and EU have been in talks on e-evidence access since September 2019.

1 month ago | mlex.com | Sara Brandstätter |Patrícia Figueiredo

By Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo ( April 22, 2025, 09:00 GMT | Comment) -- Social media apps such as Meta Platforms’ Instagram or ByteDance’s TikTok have a duty not to process the data of children under 13, a senior official at the UK’s privacy watchdog told MLex in an exclusive interview this month. Michael Murray's comments come as social media companies face pushback for allegedly failing to prevent underaged individuals from accessing their sites.

2 months ago | mlex.com | Sara Brandstätter |Júlia Tar

By Sara Brandstätter and Júlia Tar ( April 7, 2025, 12:59 GMT | Insight) -- Messenger services such as Meta Platforms' WhatsApp are seeing a new, slightly amended draft on the law on detecting child sexual abuse material after the last proposal in January failed to gain enough support from EU governments.