The Brief<\/p>\n
The EU is investigating Snapchat over its child safety policies and illegal content.<\/p>\n
The probe focuses on weak age checks and harmful activity risks.<\/p>\n
Snapchat could face fines of up to 6% of its global revenue.<\/p>\n
Snapchat is under investigation<\/a> by the European Union over the app\u2019s alleged failure to prevent child grooming and the sale of illegal goods.<\/p>\n The EU is conducting the probe under the Digital Services Act.<\/p>\n This requires online platforms to mount efforts to prevent illegal and harmful content or risk facing fines as much as 6% of their global annual sales.<\/p>\n Probe focuses on 5 factors<\/p>\n Dig deeper<\/p>\n The European Commission will be focusing on five areas in their investigation:<\/p>\n Grooming recruitment of minors for criminal activities<\/p>\n Inadequate default account settings<\/p>\n Dissemination of information on the sale of prohibited products<\/p>\n Reporting illegal content<\/p>\n Big picture view<\/p>\n The EU accused\u00a0Snapchat<\/a> of allowing the advertisement of illegal products such as vapes, alcohol and other age-restricted items on the app.<\/p>\n Additionally, officials alleged that Snapchat has an ineffective age-verification system.<\/p>\n The current mechanisms in place to notify Snapchat of illegal or harmful content are not adequate, the EU claimed.<\/p>\n What’s next<\/p>\n Snapchat said it was cooperating with EU regulators.<\/p>\n What they’re saying<\/p>\n “Snapchat is designed to help people communicate with close friends and family in a positive, trusted environment, with privacy and safety built in from the start \u2014 including additional protections for teens,” the company said in a statement to\u00a0The New York Times.<\/a> “As online risks evolve, we continuously review, strengthen and invest in these safeguards.”<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n Information for this article was taken from a news release from the European Union\u2019 European Commission and reporting by Reuters and The New York Times. This story was reported from San Jose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The EU is investigating Snapchat over its child safety policies and illegal content. The probe focuses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4942,39,256,40,4943,4941,4944,1791],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-digital-services","tag-eu","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-harmful-content","tag-illegal-content","tag-illegal-products","tag-the-eu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}