{"id":999531,"date":"2026-03-27T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999531"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T02:19:17","slug":"snapchat-hit-with-eu-probe-into-alleged-failure-to-prevent-child-grooming-illegal-goods-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/27\/snapchat-hit-with-eu-probe-into-alleged-failure-to-prevent-child-grooming-illegal-goods-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat hit with EU probe into alleged failure to prevent child grooming, illegal goods sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform Snapchat, owned by U.S. tech company Snap , was hit with an EU investigation on Thursday as regulators warned it appears not to be doing enough to prevent child grooming and the sale of illegal goods. <\/p>\n<p>The EU is conducting the probe under \u200cthe Digital \u2060Services Act, \u2060which requires big online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content or risk fines of as much as 6% of their global annual sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform Snapchat, owned by U.S. tech company Snap , was hit with an EU investigation on Thursday as regulators warned it appears not to be doing enough to prevent child grooming and the sale of illegal goods. The EU is conducting the probe under \u200cthe Digital \u2060Services Act, \u2060which requires big online platforms to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content or risk fines of as much as 6% of their global annual sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}