6/9/2026 9:20:44 AM European Commission Fines Temu €200 Million Under the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan Laura Houston Will Manley Natalie Donovan +1 more... Show less The European Commission has issued a landmark €200 million fine against Temu for breaching the Digital Services Act (“DSA”). The...
2/13/2026 3:50:48 PM Commission makes preliminary finding that TikTok’s “addictive design” breaches the DSA By Catherine O'Callaghan On 6 February 2026, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that TikTok has breached the Digital Services Act (“DSA”) due to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
4/20/2026 2:29:02 PM Privacy laws are playing their part in online safety regulation By Rebecca Cousin Kathryn Martin Cussons The debate about keeping people (especially children) safe online keeps making headlines. That debate has accelerated as AI tools that...
5/19/2026 5:05:40 PM AI-generated DSARs: learnings from ICO guidance on FOIA requests By Cindy Knott Individuals are increasingly turning to AI to help them generate and submit information requests, whether under the Freedom of...
2/27/2026 10:03:21 AM Children’s privacy in focus: ICO fines Reddit £14.47m By Bryony Bacon Lewis Mack Whereas 2025 saw the ICO’s penalties firmly aimed at data security and cyber breaches, this year has seen the issue of two significant...
6/16/2026 11:24:45 AM Transparency of AI-Generated Content – EU Publishes Code of Practice By Lily Latimer Smith Laura Houston Will Manley Catherine O'Callaghan +1 more... Show less After consulting on two previous drafts in the last six months, the Commission published its Code of Practice on Transparency of...
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...
5/5/2022 4:35:52 PM No longer “too big to care”: EU’s Digital Services Act takes aim at Musk and online platforms By Richard McDonnell Elon Musk’s free speech driven Twitter bid coincides with the EU reaching political agreement on its Digital Services Act. Elon Musk’s...