Irish Examiner view: UK walking the walk by challenging tech giants

UK legislators say tech platforms need to do much more to protect children from being exposed to grooming, bullying, or pornography.

Britain has considered proposals to impose fines of up to 10% of turnover on companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Chinese-owned TikTok if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content. File picture: PA

Twitter has been fined €450,000 by the Irish Data Protection Commission for a data breach. 

The company had inadvertently made some users’ private tweets public. This is the first time the regulator has penalised a tech giant under European GDPR rules.