10/31/2025 11:23:50 AM Commission makes preliminary finding that TikTok and Meta may have breached DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that both TikTok and Meta have breached transparency obligations under the...
10/17/2025 7:54:55 PM UK and EU ramp up online safety enforcement: Ofcom issues first OSA fine as Commission probes child protection under DSA By Jack Higgins Catherine O'Callaghan Online safety matters continue to make headlines in the UK and EU, with Ofcom this week providing an update on its recent enforcement...
9/9/2025 2:18:28 PM Zalando loses its challenge against DSA VLOP designation By Catherine O'Callaghan On 3 September 2025, the General Court of the European Union delivered the first major judicial interpretation of the DSA in its...
8/5/2024 3:46:43 PM European Commission finds X in breach of the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan In another reminder that the Commission is actively enforcing the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), X (formerly Twitter) has been sent the...
2/20/2024 6:12:11 PM DSA now fully in force By Catherine O'Callaghan As of 17 February 2024, the EU’s Digital Services Act (“DSA”) is now fully in force for all in-scope intermediary service providers. For...
12/21/2023 10:46:29 AM EU opens proceedings against X for possible breaches of the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan X has become the first company to have formal proceedings for potential breaches of the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) launched against it...
8/25/2023 6:32:18 PM DSA now in force for largest platforms By Catherine O'Callaghan Today, 25 August 2023, the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) takes effect for very large online platforms and search engines – the so-called...
11/26/2019 4:30:21 PM Is now a good time for a UK digital services tax? By Zoe Andrews The message was clear at last week's OECD public consultation on the reform of the international tax rules that there is a need to fix...
6/8/2020 5:46:27 PM A crackdown on illegal content – but at what cost? Debate around the EU’s online liability overhaul By Slaughter and May On 2 June 2020 the European Commission launched an official consultation seeking views on its proposed implementation of a new Digital...
2/4/2025 7:01:25 PM DSARs: Implications of recent legal updates By Rebecca Cousin Hilal Temel The challenges of complying with the ever-increasing volume of data subject access requests (DSARs) was a topic for discussion at our...
10/18/2022 10:40:30 AM The ICO’s new approach to DSAR enforcement: naming and shaming By Hilal Temel On 28 September, the ICO announced it had issued reprimands to seven organisations for repeatedly failing to respond to data subject...
11/29/2018 12:00:00 AM How to design a digital services tax By Slaughter and May In the Budget, The Chancellor announced the introduction of a “narrowly targeted” Digital Services Tax. It is indeed narrowly targeted,...
6/19/2020 12:43:26 PM Digital Services Taxes: How “rough and ready” could become the new normal By Slaughter and May The UK’s Digital Services Tax (“DST”), which is a 2% levy on certain revenues derived from search engines, social media services and...
10/22/2021 2:48:42 PM Bridging the gap between DSTs and the new global tax system By Zoe Andrews A big driver for international tax reform (and certainly the motivation for the renewed interest in it by the US under the Biden...
12/16/2020 6:47:25 AM A New Dawn for Digital Markets: the European Commission’s new Digital Services Package By Slaughter and May In a previous post (see here) we discussed that the European Commission (the “Commission”) has launched three consultations on new...
6/4/2020 12:58:54 PM Controlling the gatekeeper: the Commission's digital regulation revolution? By Madalina Secareanu On 2 June 2020, the European Commission launched three consultations that will impact the digital economy. These measures are part of the...