Spanish watchdog opens TikTok probe but denies government demand to block app
The watchdog said it will target specific content after an investigation found more than 1,000 abusive 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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'We warned about this a long time ago; Impunity on social media is over. No platform is above the law. 'Least of all when it comes to the rights of our sons and daughters,' says Pedro Sanchez
A review of child sexual abuse clips on TikTok has had a major impact in Spain. The country's prosecutor's office and data protection authority have now launched investigations into the platform. "If it had been up to me, TikTok would have been blocked in Spain yesterday," writes the Minister of Children and Youth, Sira Rego, according to El País.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency said that, once the information offered by the platform has been analyzed, it will order the blocking.
The Spanish Public Prosecutor ' s Office opened an investigation into TikTok following the discovery of more than a thousand publications containing sexual violence against children.
The coordinating prosecutor against computer crime was appointed to "investigate the possible crimes related to the elaboration and dissemination of contents of child sexual abuse and corruption that could have been perpetrated on the social network TikTok," the Public Prosecutor's Office reported in a statement. On Monday, the Spanish foundation Cursed.es claimed to have found more than a thousand explicit videos of child sexual abuse in this s…
The Spanish courts opened an investigation into TikTok after the alleged discovery of thousands of pedocriminal content, reported by the Maldita.es association.
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