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Tech Giants face stricter rules as EU Digital Services Act comes into force

The Digital Services Act means big tech companies in the EU will have to follow new rules.

The likes of Tiktok, Meta and Google will face some of the strictest rules about how they look after our data anywhere in the world as the Digital Services Act or DSA comes into force across European nations.

Firms with over 45 million users in the European will have to pay fines of up to 6 per cent of their massive global revenues should they be found to breach the new rules.

Also on the programme, we discuss how Helsinki became a global mobile games capital.

Will Bain is joined throughout the programme by Dr Stephanie Hare, a researcher of technology and politics and Sushma Ramachandran, an independent business journalist and columnist for The Tribune newspaper.

(Photo: Logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft on a mobile phone with an EU flag in the background. Credit; Getty Images.)

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