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| 09.09.2025 | EU Parliament Committee Adopts Proposal to Ban “Meaty” Terms for Plant-Based Foods | The European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development has voted to adopt a proposal that would prevent plant-based foods from being labelled with “meaty” terms such as “steak”, “escalope”, and even “burger” or “sausage”.
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| 18.07.2025 | New European Commission Proposal Aims to Ban Plant-Based Products From Using Certain “Meaty” Terms | A new proposal from the European Commission aims to prevent plant-based products from using 29 “meaty” terms, including “beef”, “pork”, and “chicken”.
It is claimed that introducing these restrictions will enhance transparency regarding the... |
| 12.06.2025 | Temu and Shein: Navigating the Stormy Seas of European Expansion | Temu and Shein, two titans of budget e-commerce, are shifting their sails toward Europe. The winds in the U.S. have turned harsh, with tariffs and regulatory storms battering their business. In May, consumer spending on Temu in the U.S. plu... |
| 10.06.2025 | Temu and Shein are pivoting to Europe in face of U.S. tariffs. But they may not get a warm welcome | As Temu and Shein suffer from tariffs in the U.S., the companies have been shifting focus to Europe, where their sales grew in May, according to consumer trend data from Consumer Edge.
However, experts warn that the China-founded budget sho... |
| 05.06.2025 | Shein hit with complaint from EU consumer group over 'dark patterns' | LONDON :Pan-European consumers organisation BEUC filed a complaint with the European Commission on Thursday against online fast-fashion retailer Shein over its use of "dark patterns", tactics designed to make people buy more on it... |
| 14.05.2025 | Coca-Cola to update recycling labels following EU greenwashing complaint | Listen to the article 3 min
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The Coca-Cola Company has committed to revising labeling practices for some of its products following a greenwashing complaint ma... |
| 23.04.2025 | Meta, Apple fined 700 million euros for violating EU antitrust rules | LONDON :European Union regulators on Wednesday imposed fines on Apple and Meta totalling 700 million euros ($877 million) for violating new antitrust rules, the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing Big Tech's power.
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| 24.01.2025 | Meta's Subscription Dilemma: A Legal Tightrope in the EU | Meta Platforms is walking a legal tightrope in Europe. The tech giant's revised no-ads subscription service is under scrutiny. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has raised alarms. They claim Meta's service may breach EU privacy laws... |
| 23.01.2025 | Meta's revised paid ad-free service may breach EU privacy laws, consumer group says | BRUSSELS :Meta Platforms' revised no-ads subscription service may still breach EU consumer and privacy laws in addition to antitrust rules, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said on Thursday as it urged regulators to act against the... |
| 23.01.2025 | 130+ Organisations Demand EU Action Plan on Plant-Based Foods | Over 130 organisations have written to Christophe Hansen, the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, asking him to develop an EU Action Plan for Plant-Based Foods by 2026.
The groups represent several interests, including farmers, ... |
| 23.01.2025 | Meta’s revised no-ads service may breach EU privacy laws, antitrust rules; European consumer rights group demand action | Meta Platforms' revised no-ads subscription service may still breach EU consumer and privacy laws in addition to antitrust rules, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) said on Thursday as it urged regulators to act against the U.S. tech... |
| 23.01.2025 | 130 Climate & Consumer Groups Urge EU to Create Plant-Based Diet Action Plan | 5 Mins Read Over 130 organisations have written an open letter to the EU agrifood commissioner, imploring him to develop a plant-based action plan by next year.
“The time for change is now.” That was the consensus of the Strategic Dialogue ... |
| 20.01.2025 | New BEUC Report Calls on Retailers and Governments to Support Plant-Based Alternatives | A new report from the European Consumer Organization BEUC, “Unwrapping Veggie Burgers”, examines the growing popularity of plant-based meat alternatives in Europe and their potential to diversify protein sources in consumer diets. The repor... |
| 28.06.2024 | Chinese Fast-Fashion Giants Temu and Shein Questioned by EU Regulators on Online Content Compliance | By John Lopez
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| 17.05.2024 | EU Consumer Groups Accuse Temu of Manipulating Online Shoppers | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published May 17, 2024 4:48AM EDT
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European consumer groups leveled accusations against the Chinese shopping app Temu, ... |
| 29.02.2024 | Meta's Controversial 'Pay or Consent' Data Grab Faces New Charges From EU Consumer Groups | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 29 February 2024, 08:02 am
Meta's controversial "pay or consent" initiative, which forces European Union users to either pay for an ad-free experience or consent to being tracked and profiled, continues ... |
| 23.02.2024 | Italy Rethinking Its Plant-Based Meat Labelling Ban to Avoid ‘Conflict with Italian Companies’ | 5 Mins Read Despite its hard-line stance on alternative protein in the last few months, Italy is reconsidering its ban on using meat-like terms on plant-based product labels, with Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida indicating that ... |
| 17.11.2023 | Confused About a Food Fact? This New Platform Lets You Ask Scientists for an Expert Opinion | 4 Mins Read Food information body the European Food Information Council has launched a new platform to debunk misinformation and help build science-based literacy around food. The Food Facts online community is part of the Sustainable Food ... |
| 27.06.2023 | EU Introduces 'Crash Test' Systems for AI to Ensure Safety | Inno Flores, Tech Times 27 June 2023, 09:06 am
Crash Test systems will be introduced by the European Union, specifically made for artificial intelligence. Through this process, EU regulators will ensure that innovations and technology are s... |
| 24.06.2023 | This week in AI: Big tech bets billions on machine learning tools | Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t co... |
| 20.06.2023 | Consumer Groups Urge EU to Launch Investigations Into Risks of Generative AI | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 20 June 2023, 07:06 am
Consumer groups across 13 European countries are urging regulators to launch investigations into the potential risks posed by generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and to enforce existing legislat... |
| 20.06.2023 | Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’ | European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and noncommercially — in the region. Today the EU’s largest consumer group, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), weighed in with ... |
| 08.06.2023 | Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter Under EU Scrutiny for Misleading Crypto Asset Promotion | John Lopez, Tech Times 08 June 2023, 01:06 pm
Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter face potential regulatory action in the European Union following a complaint filed by the European consumer group BEUC.
As reported by Reuters, the compla... |
| 04.04.2023 | Nintendo Switch JoyCon Drift Issue: Unlimited Repairs in Europe After Pressure, Complaints from BEUC | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 04 April 2023, 08:04 pm
Nintendo is now offering unlimited repairs for the Switch's JoyCon drift issues but is limited to consoles in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. This is ... |
| 06.03.2023 | WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU | It’s taken rather longer than a month for Meta-owned WhatsApp to commit to address complaints swirling around how it imposes terms of service on users but the European Commission has just announced that the messaging platform has agreed to ... |
| 22.11.2022 | The Global Trend That Could Kill The Internet: Sender Party Network Pays | There is a Korean proverb that says: “There is always a way out, look for it.” South Korea’s recent revision of its Telecommunications Business Act (TBA) might, however, be the one thing South Korea is not able to get out of, unless it aban... |
| 04.11.2022 | Regulating the future: A look at the EU’s plan to reboot product liability rules for AI | A recently presented European Union plan to update long-standing product liability rules for the digital age — including addressing rising use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation — took some instant flak from European consumer or... |
| 04.07.2022 | Google sign-up process may be illegal and attract a hefty fine | Google, among other tech companies, has not exactly managed to steer clear of the scrutiny from different regulators worldwide. Particularly, the European Union has imposed hefty fines on the tech giant against antitrust allegations and pri... |
| 01.07.2022 | EU consumer groups move against Google's 'sign-up surveillance' | Ten consumer groups, coordinated by the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), have accused Google of using deceptive design and misleading choices in its account sign-up process, giving the firm access to a vast amount of personal data.
Th... |
| 13.04.2022 | EU’s digital rule-book reboot could fumble dark patterns ban and trader checks, warns BEUC | When the European Commission presented its Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal in December 2020, it listed beefed up consumer protections as a headline goal for the flagship update to the bloc’s rules for digital services. But now, as negot... |
| 14.12.2021 | Europe’s final push on the Digital Markets Act must include default settings | Sophie Dembinski Contributor
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| 02.09.2021 | WhatsApp faces $267M fine for breaching Europe’s GDPR | It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime: Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has just announced a €225 million (~$267 million) fine for WhatsApp.
The ... |
| 12.07.2021 | Controversial WhatsApp policy change hit with consumer law complaint in Europe | Facebook has been accused of multiple breaches of European Union consumer protection law as a result of its attempts to force WhatsApp users to accept controversial changes to the messaging platforms’ terms of use — such as threatening user... |
| 12.07.2021 | WhatsApp Privacy Policy Push Hit by EU Consumer Rights Complaint | Popular messaging service WhatsApp has been hit with a complaint by the European Consumer Organisation (BCEU) over claims it unfairly pressured users to accept its new privacy policy.
The group, along with eight of its members, filed the co... |
| 20.04.2021 | Amendment 171: Hearings Begin Tomorrow to Decide Fate of Plant-Based Dairy | Climate-hostile Amendment 171, which aims to censor plant-based alternatives to dairy products, will be debated from Wednesday 21 April. If the Amendment is passed, phrases such as “creamy” or “like milk” would be banned on packaging, simil... |
| 03.03.2021 | TikTok Hires Expert Panel To Improve Child Protection In Europe | Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesSOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
| 16.02.2021 | TikTok Runs Afoul of European Consumer Law | TikTok has found itself in trouble with the European Consumer Organisation BEUC, as a result of multiple infractions against EU consumer laws.
TikTok has faced repeated criticism for breaches of privacy, especially in regard to the privacy ... |
| 16.02.2021 | TikTok hit with consumer, child safety and privacy complaints in Europe | TikTok is facing a fresh round of regulatory complaints in Europe where consumer protection groups have filed a series of coordinated complaints alleging multiple breaches of EU law.
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has lodged with... |
| 26.11.2020 | GDPR enforcement must level up to catch big tech, report warns | A new report by European consumer protection umbrella group Beuc, reflecting on the barriers to effective cross-border enforcement of the EU’s flagship data protection framework, makes awkward reading for the regional lawmakers and regulato... |
| 23.10.2020 | A Vegan Burger Is Still A Burger, The EU Rules | Impossible Foods is valued at more than $ 4 billion.Impossible Foods |
| 16.10.2020 | Richard Parr MBE, Managing Director of GFI Europe: “Want to Change the Food System? Help Us Get Business Onside” | It’s not often that environmental, animal welfare and consumer nonprofits team up with business. But in recent weeks, companies from Unilever to IKEA, as well as leading NGOs such as WWF and Greenpeace, have taken a stand for Europe’s thriv... |
| 16.10.2020 | Richard Parr MBE, Managing Director of GFI Europe: “Want to Change the Food System? Help Us Get Business Onside” | Richard Parr, MBE, Managing Director of The Good Food Institute Europe
It’s not often that environmental, animal welfare and consumer nonprofits team up with business. But in recent weeks, companies from Unilever to IKEA, as well as leading... |
| 17.09.2020 | After Five Years, Europe’s ‘Dieselgate’ Victims Have Still Not Been Compensated | Dark clouds still hang over VW for its diesel emissions scandal. AFP via Getty Images |
| 27.08.2020 | 'Stop Hiding Behind Your Platform:' Sweden Welcomes Amazon With Scathing Letter | "And so, you eventually made it to Sweden," begins the open letter to Amazon published August 26 by the Swedish Consumers’ Association (SCA), a nonprofit watchdog. The letter doesn't get any more enthusiastic from there.
Amazon an... |
| 04.08.2020 | Google-Fitbit deal to be scrutinized in Europe over data competition concerns | In a set-back for Google’s plan to acquire health wearable company Fitbit, the European Commission has announced it’s opening an investigation to dig into a range of competition concerns being attached to the proposal from multiple quarters... |
| 09.06.2020 | European Consumers Are Ready to Shift to Sustainable Plant-Based Foods But Face Obstacles, Governments Must do More | The European Consumer Organisation BEUC has released a report revealing that most Europeans are willing to reduce their meat consumption in favour of plant-based, to aid sustainability in the food sector. It also finds that the European Com... |
| 28.11.2018 | EU Privacy Group Says Location History Requirement for Google Assistant Features Violates GDPR Protections | EU Privacy Group Says Location History Requirement for Google Assistant Features Violates GDPR Protections
Bret Kinsella on November 28, 2018 at 8:03 am
The European Consumer Organization (BECU) has announced a formal complaint will be file... |
| 27.11.2018 | EU Consumer Groups Rally Against Google's Tracking Practices | Several consumer groups in the European Union rallied against Google’s user-tracking practices, having announced their intentions to file complaints with their national privacy authorities on Tuesday, alleging Alphabet’s subsidiary broke nu... |
| 06.07.2018 | Facebook, Google, Amazon and other tech giants could be non-compliant with GDPR, claims EU consumer group | The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) has claimed that Amazon, Facebook and Google are among 14 of the world's biggest online and technology companies could be non-compliant with GDPR.
It claims to have built its own tool, called Claude... |
| 04.07.2018 | AI spots legal problems with tech T&Cs in GDPR research project | Technology is the proverbial double-edged sword. And an experimental European research project is ensuring this axiom cuts very close to the industry’s bone indeed by applying machine learning technology to critically sift big tech’s privac... |
| 14.06.2018 | Here are the experts who will help shape Europe’s AI policy | The European Commission has announced the names of 52 experts from across industry, business and civil society who it has appointed to a new High Level Group on AI which will feed its strategy and policymaking around artificial intelligence... |
| 06.06.2018 | Europe to cap intra-EU call fees as part of overhaul to telecoms rules | European Union institutions have reached a political agreement over an update to the bloc’s telecoms rules that’s rattled the cages of incumbent telcos.
Agreement was secured late yesterday after months of negotiations between the EU parlia... |
| 25.04.2018 | Europe eyes boosting data re-use and funds for AI research | The European Union’s executive body, the EC, has taken a first pass at drawing up a strategy to respond to the myriad socio-economic challenges around artificial intelligence technology — including setting out steps intended to boost invest... |
| 12.03.2018 | Report calls for algorithmic transparency and education to fight fake news | A report commissioned by European lawmakers has called for more transparency from online platforms to help combat the spread of false information online.
It also calls for urgent investment in media and information literacy education, and s... |
| 31.08.2016 | Open Internet Advocates Claim Victory in Europe Net Neutrality Fight | Open internet advocates celebrated on Tuesday after Europe's top telecom authority issued stronger-than-expected guidelines protecting net neutrality, the principle that all content on the internet should be equally accessible to consumers.... |
| 06.04.2016 | Geo-Blocking Madness Highlighted by Hidden Camera Stunt | Anyone who has spent any significant amount of time on the Internet will be familiar with the practice of geo-blocking.
In one of its most visible forms Internet users are told by YouTube that the video they’re trying to access contains con... |
| 28.10.2015 | Call For Robust Privacy Legislation In Wake Of EU Safe Harbor Strike-Down | A group of U.S. and EU digital rights organizations and consumer NGOs — including the EFF, the U.S. Center for Digital Democracy, the European Consumer Organization and Privacy International — have issued a statement calling for a “meaningf... |
| 12.06.2014 | European Medicines Agency Unexpectedly Waters Down Draft Policy On Sharing Drug Safety Data | For some time, Techdirt has been reporting on the attempt to open up critical drug safety information in Europe. Despite fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry, in April the European Parliament adopted the Clinical Trials Regula... |
| - | Elon Musk wants to pause ‘dangerous’ AI development. Bill Gates disagrees—and he’s not the only one | If you’ve heard a lot of pro-AI chatter in recent days, you’re probably not alone.
AI developers, prominent AI ethicists and even Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates have spent the past week defending their work. That’s in response to an open l... |
| - | Shein accused of “dark marketing” — what does it mean? | Shein, the Chinese fast fashion giant, is in hot water this week over its alleged use of manipulative marketing tactics.
The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), made up of 25 members across 21 countries, has accused Shein of using “dark ... |
| - | В Еврокомиссию пожаловались на спорное изменение политики WhatsApp | Материнскую компанию Facebook обвиняют в многочисленных нарушениях закона о защите прав потребителей Европейского союза из-за попыток заставить пользователей WhatsApp принять противоречивые изменения условий использования мессенджера — в то... |
