EU appeals body criticizes YouTube for blocking DSA dispute reviews
ACE’s first DSA transparency report cites poor platform cooperation—especially from YouTube—hindering user access to out-of-court content moderation appeals in the EU.
digital services
Commission weighs DSA VLOP status for ChatGPT search
The Commission is assessing whether ChatGPT’s EU search usage surpassing the DSA threshold triggers VLOP obligations for its search functionality.
Commission seeks to cut cookie consent banners across EU websites
Brussels weighs scaling back e-Privacy cookie consent via centralized preferences and limited exceptions, pitting industry’s GDPR alignment against privacy advocates ahead of the Digital Fairness Act.
Dutch court rules Meta must respect persistent user feed choices
A Dutch court ordered Meta to offer a persistent, accessible non-profiled feed under the DSA, reinforcing EU-wide user autonomy and limiting dark patterns in recommender systems.
EDPB and European Commission release joint guidelines on DMA and GDPR
EDPB and European Commission publish joint DMA–GDPR guidelines, clarifying consent, data use, and interoperability, with a public consultation open until 4 December 2025.
New Commission Guidelines on age assurance and minors’ protections under the DSA
Commission issues non-binding DSA Guidelines setting a benchmark for proportionate, by-design measures to ensure minors’ privacy, safety, and security, including robust age assurance beyond self-declaration.
EU Digital Omnibus: Commission Plan for Digital Law Simplification
The EU Digital Omnibus targets technical simplification and coherence across GDPR, ePrivacy, AI Act, and other digital laws without weakening substantive rights or enforcement.
Google drops inter-cloud data transfer fees in Europe under EU Data Act push
Google waives inter-cloud data transfer fees in the EU and UK ahead of the EU Data Act, outpacing AWS and Microsoft and lowering costs for multicloud portability and switching.
General Court upholds Zalando DSA very large online platform designation
General Court upholds the Commission’s DSA designation of Zalando as a very large online platform, endorsing the 83+ million active recipients metric and rejecting legality and proportionality challenges.
EU fines Google €2.95 billion for distorting competition in adtech
EU fines Google €2.95 billion for adtech self-preferencing, orders structural conflict fixes within 60 days, and signals possible divestiture amid parallel US remedies proceedings.