EU Warns Facebook, Google, Twitter Over T&Cs
March 17 2017 - 9:16AM
Dow Jones News
By Natalia Drozdiak
BRUSSELS--The European Union's executive body and other national
consumer authorities on Friday gave Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s
Google and Twitter Inc. one month to address scams and fraud and
bring their terms in line with the bloc's rules or face
"enforcement action."
The European Commission said they had met this week with the
three companies, along with other national consumer authorities, to
discuss the growing number of complaints from consumers lamenting
they had been target of fraud or scams and subject to unfair terms
and services.
The companies agreed to propose changes in those areas, the EU
said.
"The commission and the consumer authorities will review the
final proposals," the EU said. "If they are not satisfactory,
consumer authorities could ultimately resort to enforcement
action."
Write to Natalia Drozdiak at natalia.drozdiak@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 17, 2017 09:01 ET (13:01 GMT)
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