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Investing.com -- Elon Musk’s X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is facing complaints from nine civil society organizations to European Union and French regulators over potential violations of EU tech rules regarding targeted advertising.
The organizations filed their complaints to the European Commission and French media regulator Arcom on Monday, alleging that X may be improperly using user data for targeted advertising in ways that breach the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The nine groups behind the complaint include AI Forensics, the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe, Entropy, European Digital Rights, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V. (GFF), Global Witness, Panoptykon Foundation, Stichting Bits of Freedom, and VoxPublic.
In their filing, the organizations urged regulators to take action under the DSA, which specifically prohibits advertising based on sensitive user data such as religion, race, and sexuality.
The DSA represents one of the EU’s key regulatory frameworks designed to govern digital platforms and protect user privacy across member states.
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