European Parliament restricts tracking and micro-targeting for political ads A broad majority within the European Parliament’s Justice Committee agreed today to ban tracking of internet users for political ads. After months of negotiations, the European Parliament set its position on a new law on political ads. Dutch S&D MEP Paul Tang is satisfied: “Democracy is…
Today the European Commission presented the European Media Freedom Act, a long-awaited law to protect journalists from spyware, tackle disinformation and restore media pluralism. According to Dutch S&D MEP’s Thijs Reuten and Paul Tang it is a critical signal at a critical time: “A large number of European countries, such as Greece, Hungary and Poland,…
Together with MEP Evin Incir, I would like to invite you to our event on “How to effectively fight child sexual exploitation and abuse online?” on June 1st from 13h00 to 14h00 in the European Parliament and virtually. On May 11th, EU Commissioner Johansson presented a new legislative proposal to prevent and combat child sexual exploitation…
An agreement has just been reached on the law that should protect European citizens and companies online. The Digital Services Act (DSA) ensures that what is illegal offline becomes illegal online. In addition, the law offers protection to children on the Internet and imposes restrictions on the distribution of disinformation. Member of the European Parliament…
An agreement has just been reached on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that will tackle the market power of Big Tech. MEP Paul Tang followed the negotiations and is delighted: “In record time, Europe has reached an agreement on a law that will fundamentally change the Internet. Abuse of power by Big Tech will be prohibited…
2022 put the spotlights in Europe on Digital Advertising Technology. In January, the French Data Protection Authority (DPA) hit Facebook and Google with significant fines for luring consumers into consenting to the use of their personal data, going against the national data protection rulebook. Less than a month later, the Belgium DPA followed by declaring…
The Big Tech lobby has lost. Today the European Parliament voted on the Digital Services Act (DSA), the law that will make digital traffic safer. An overwhelming majority of the parliamentarians agreed with the law and with that also with the proposals of PvdA Member of Parliament Paul Tang: “I am very pleased with the…
Today, a large majority of the European Parliament voted in favour of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) compromise texts. This law will limit the market power of the largest Big Tech companies. MEP Paul Tang (S&D), who was one of the negotiators: “We are probably witnessing the largest lobbying operation Brussels has ever seen. And…
Today we took an important hurdle towards European legislation to tackle Big Tech’s market dominance. Facebook is more nervous than ever. Today, a large majority of the Internal Market Committee in the European Parliament voted in favour of tightening up the Digital Markets Act – the so-called DMA. By doing so we took the final…
The European Court of Justice ruled this morning in the case brought by Google against the 2.42 billion euros fine imposed on the tech company by the European Commission. The Commission fined Google for abuse of market power. The ruling of the highest European court proves that competition law is not dead and at the…