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The European Union s tax haven blacklist system has failed to catch the worst offenders, MEPs have said last week as they voted in favour of a resolution that calls on the bloc to act. They said the list, which was set up in 2017, failed to “live up to its full potential, [with] jurisdictions currently on the list covering less than 2 percent of worldwide tax revenue losses .
Lawmakers in the European Parliament have raised concerns at the role that social media played in the storming of the US Capitol in Washington, saying the EU’s proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) should double down on the spread of conspiratorial material online.
Supporters of outgoing president Donald Trump provoked violent scenes in the US capital on Wednesday, obstructing the certification of the November election votes which would formally declare Democrat Joe Biden as the new US President.
For the first time, social media platforms appeared to recognise their share of responsibility in allowing Donald Trump to spread false allegations that the US election was rigged.
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WhatsApp is forcing users to agree to sharing information with Facebook if they want to keep using the service.
The company warns users in a pop-up notice that they need to accept these updates to continue using WhatsApp - or delete their accounts.
But Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, said European and UK users would not see the same data-sharing changes, although they will need to accept new terms.
The exception has been welcomed by some as a victory for EU privacy regulators.
The deadline in both regions to accept the change is 8 February, after which you ll need to accept these updates to continue using WhatsApp , the company said in the pop-up alert to users.
https://www.hangthecensors.com/482960.html (Natural News) In the first overhaul of its rules for internet businesses in two decades, the European Union is threatening to break up companies that repeatedly engage in anti-competitive behavior, raising the stakes in its efforts to curb Big Tech.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, presented on Tuesday, Dec. 15, two new pieces of legislation that will affect how these tech giants operate. These come following concerns in the region about how powerful some of these companies have become and how this has posed as a roadblock for smaller firms looking to compete in the European market.
Published December 16. 2020 12:05AM
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The European Union on Tuesday unveiled sweeping new rules for online businesses that could potentially force fundamental changes in the business practices of digital giants such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon.
The new rules would overhaul the basic legal framework through which companies conduct their digital business in the vast, wealthy E.U. market, requiring platforms to police content far more aggressively and banning them from using their vast stores of data to unfairly overtake their competitors.
If enacted - a process that could take years - the rules would touch every company that conducts business on the internet within the 27-nation European Union, from the smallest to the gargantuan. But the very biggest companies, almost all of them American, would be subject to particularly aggressive rules.