The Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, has suggested to TikTok officials that they cease their activity in Spain as long as they do not remove all child sexual abuse material from the platform and the hundreds of pedophile profiles that have come to light following an investigation by the media outlet Maldita.es. If they do not do so, Rego has announced that the Data Protection Agency has been asked to "precautionarily suspend" the social network's activity in the country. The minister said this to the media this Tuesday afternoon, after meeting with the platform's officials, as well as with the journalists who have led the investigation. "If it were up to us, TikTok would have been suspended since yesterday [Monday]," denounced Rego, who said she is confident of getting a "quick" response from the Spanish agency. The minister has assured that there is legal room for the measure to be adopted in an exceptional manner.

A few weeks ago, at an institutional event in Brussels, a digital policy expert celebrated that Europe's commitment to defense opened a window of opportunity for European artificial intelligence. But he warned: "We will need a lot more data than we have now." No one in the room seemed to have any problem. No one mentioned that one of the most important principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is precisely that of limiting data collection to what is strictly necessary.

This week, the social technology company Meta began using data from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users to train its artificial intelligence models. Users, they say, can opt out by filling out a form. In the world of so-called data protection, to protect your data, you supposedly have to fill out additional forms. Although it's also somewhat naive to believe that in the world of social media, smartphones And despite all the technological steps we must take, our data remains protected. Right now, to be free from the manipulation of data thieves, you'd have to live in a permanent blackout or in a self-sufficient house as isolated as possible. I'm talking about our context, obviously. And the lack of credibility generated by these companies, with extremely strange principles that we have assumed as our own. normal, like not being able to show women's nipples, but explicit violence in its most unpleasant forms is. Of course, outside of social media, it also happens that if a man walks shirtless on the street, it's considered normal And if a woman does it, it's considered, at the very least, provocative. Breasts are a clear example of the lack of evolution. And mind you, I'm in favor of everyone wearing clothes on the street. I don't mess with individual tastes; we wouldn't end up. But dressed. Now, if a man shows an uncensored photo of his torso on Instagram, a woman should be able to do exactly the same. Having made this discriminatory note about nipples, we're back where we were. The data. Protected. On social media. Don't make me laugh, I'm ready to go back to nipples.

The Catalan Data Protection Authority (APDCAT) has fined Clece Seguridad €96,004 for failing to take sufficient measures to protect critical information about the prison system that it processes on behalf of the Department of Justice. Specifically, this company provides remote monitoring, tracking, and surveillance services for prisoners on probation who wear a telematic bracelet that geolocates them. Documents regarding the installation of these bracelets were stolen from the company in August 2022, when the papers spent an entire night in a van in a sand parking lot. The company reported the theft the next day but did not alert the department of the information theft.