The European Commission points out that the Chinese company did not provide the risk assessment requested last week and launched the application “without taking effective measures to limit the risks.” TikTok has 48 hours to respond.
The European Commission threatened on Monday to suspend activities from next Thursday TikTok Litethe application that the Chinese platform launched in Spain and France, due to the suspicion that “It is toxic and addictiveespecially for children.
“Unless TikTok provides convincing evidence of its security, which it has not done so far, we are prepared to activate the interim measures of the Digital Services Act, including the suspension of the TikTok Lite rewards program,” the European Commissioner said for Internal Market. Thierry Breton.
This is the first time Brussels has directly threatened a platform with financial sanctions since the European Union’s new law on digital services came into effect.
In a statement, the European Commission noted that the Chinese company has a European headquarters in Ireland did not submit the risk assessment claimed last week and has launched TikTok Lite in Spain and France “without taking effective measures to mitigate the risks.”
TikTok, which is owned by the company ByteDance, now has 48 hours to respond, so if it does not provide the documentation or if Brussels considers that it is not adequately analyzing and mitigating the risks, the Commission will take measures to mental health of minors, which can range from suspension of the system in the EU leads to astronomical fines.
These sanctions could consist of 1% of global annual turnover or 5% of their average income worldwide, and fines could also be imposed ‘for every day of delay’, European sources indicate.
Now that research is underway, TikTok has launched the new one reward system That creates “a financial incentive for the extra time spent on the application,” European sources have explained, adding to “fears” in Brussels that “it could lead to addiction, especially among the most vulnerable users.”
These points can then be redeemed for bonuses at e-commerce stores and the like, which in addition to that new application, had already been formally investigating the platform since February for its apparent “lack of effective age verification mechanisms and alleged addictive design.” .
If the service is suspended, a decision that Brussels could make from Thursday, it would be canceled for an initial and renewable period of 60 days.
Source: EITB
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