Spanish watchdog opens TikTok probe but denies government demand to block app
The watchdog will target specific content after Maldita.es reported 1,183 explicit posts and 48 million views.
- On Wednesday, Spain's data protection watchdog, the AEPD, launched a probe into the alleged proliferation of child sexual abuse material on TikTok following investigative reporting by Spanish outlet Maldita.es.
- Maldita catalogued 1,183 explicit videos with 48 million total views, alleging TikTok removed only a tenth of flagged material and blocked just 26% of illegal posts in Spain.
- Separately, Spain's attorney general ordered a cybercrimes prosecutor to investigate "any potential crimes related to the production and dissemination of child sexual abuse material and the corruption of minors that may have been committed."
- Rejecting calls to temporarily block TikTok, the AEPD is instead pursuing "concrete, proportionate and appropriate" measures while sharing information with Ireland's Data Protection Commission.
- The European Union told TikTok on Friday to change the "harmful" design of its personalised 'For You' feed or risk large fines under the bloc's digital content rules.
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Sanchez stressed that "no platform is above the law, especially when it comes to the rights of our children" - Researchers also discovered more than 26,000 profiles of potential pedophiles
In Spain, an investigation has been launched against TikTok due to the distribution of materials of sexual violence against children. The Spanish prosecutor's office is investigating TikTok after a report of more than a thousand posts with materials of sexual abuse against children<p>. Data will be transferred to the Irish regulator.</p>
Spanish watchdog opens TikTok probe but denies government demand to block app
Spain's data protection watchdog AEPD said on Wednesday that it had launched a probe into the alleged proliferation of child sexual abuse material on social media platform TikTok brought to light in an investigation by a local news website.
Prosecutor's Investigation in Spain Into Alleged Distribution of Child Pornography Content on TikTok
Over 26,000 profiles of potential pedophiles exist on TikTok, according to research by the organization Maldita.es The post Spain: Prosecutor's investigation into the alleged dissemination of child pornography content on TikTok appeared first on in.gr.
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