12/9/2025 5:50:29 PM X fined €120m for breaches of EU Digital Services Act – including ‘deceptive’ blue ticks By Catherine O'Callaghan The European Commission has issued its first fine under the Digital Services Act (“DSA”), to X for breaches of transparency obligations...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
12/11/2025 8:10:36 PM Lessons in online safety: Ofcom’s £1 million fine against AVS and end of year review By Jack Higgins Bryony Bacon Earlier this month, Ofcom published its most significant fine to date – a £1 million fine against adult website provider AVS Limited...
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,...
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...
11/20/2025 2:37:30 PM What changes does the Digital Omnibus make to the EU GDPR? By Bryony Bacon Major changes to the EU’s data protection regime are included in the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus package, launched on 19...
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...