Brussels: European Union (EU) authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Twitter and Google to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient. Twitter did not respond immediately to an emailed request for comment and a Google spokesman declined to make immediate comment. The concerns centre mainly on procedures the social media companies proposed to set up for the removal of illegal content on their websites, terms limiting their liability and terms allowing them unilaterally to remove content posted by users. The companies had first proposed changes to their terms and conditions in March to assuage the regulators’ concerns in March. In the case of Alphabet’s Google unit, the concerns were about its social network Google+.

Source: Mint July 25, 2017 13:07 UTC