European Union (EU) have informed popular video-sharing TikTok, to make changes to their platform after probes have revealed that the medium had breached its online safety rules.
These new developments stems from an investigation conducted by the European Commission two-years ago into TikTok’s safety policies. In the Commission’s initial reports, it indicated that the Chinese-owned company did not satisfactorily appraise features such as auto-play which had tendencies of harming the well being of its users.
Prior to TikTok honouring the invitation by EU, TikTok‘s spoke’s person in an interview with BBC seized the opportunity completely rubbish all allegations levelled against the company, “categorically false and entirely meritless depiction of our platform,” he said. Depending on the outcome of the verdict, TikTok might have to payout 6% of their earnings which is estimated to be in billions.
Henna Virkkunen, the tech chief officer for EU when asked about what TikTok needed to do – had this to say, ” it would have to change the design of their services in Europe.
Meanwhile, the European Commission had pronounced a number of suggestions for TikTok to implement in order to protect the safety and well being of the millions of people who utilize the platform – the commission said TikTok should implement screen breaks policy and disable the infinite scroll.
In effect, the EU tech chief said, “the Digital Services Act makes platforms responsible for the effects they can have on their users. In Europe, we can enforce our legislation to protect our children and our citizens online.”
Source: BBC