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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 7 points 3 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 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 4 minutes ago

well then they get massive fines for any data they leak