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TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe in breach of the Digital Services Act (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
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The Commission's investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.

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[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Meta got sued and had to pay €1,500 per user in a ruling of a supreme state court which can't be appealed. There's a wave of lawsuits expected to follow because this actually means every Facebook user (for now, it might be possible that non-users whose data were also collected will sue, too) can easily sue now. I remember Meta boasting to have the data of some 10M Germans for targeted advertising. Unfortunately that's hardly robust evidence but I hope they'll sue them to hell and back.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

i keep hearing about these companies getting fined, yet here we still are. when will heads start to roll?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The fines are too good a revenue source. Ireland would be fucked without the steady stream they represent.

[–] insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

All I every hear is how Ireland tries to avoid taking fines or tax from them.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yeah… here we are: Europeans with right to be forgotten and opt out of data collection

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

let me believe this next time there is a big data leak

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

well then they get massive fines for any data they leak

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i keep hearing about these companies getting fined, yet here we still are.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

since GDPR came in TBH i haven’t heard of any EU data leaks… like sure they happen in the US all the time, but where the fines actually happen

same with australia: we’ve had pretty good privacy laws since like the 90s, and really we haven’t had a whooooole lot of breaches. there have been some high profile ones, but security is never a 100% kinda thing yknow