Spain will seek to prohibit children aged under 16 from accessing social media
Spain will seek to prohibit children under the age of 16 from accessing social media and require platforms to introduce age-verification systems, Prime Minister Pedro...
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Spanish government approves draft law to crack down on AI deepfakes and image misuse
The Spanish government on Tuesday signed off on draft legislation aimed at tackling AI–generated deepfakes and tightening rules around consent for the use of images,...
Telefónica to shed up to 5,500 jobs, over 25% of its workforce in Spain
Telefónica is to cut up to 5,500 jobs in Spain under a voluntary departure plan agreed with trade unions last week, the debt-laden telecoms firm...
Telefónica to pursue 5,000 job cuts in Spain, according to union
Spain’s heavily indebted telecoms heavyweight Telefónica is preparing to shed up to 5,040 positions across three of its subsidiaries as part of a sweeping overhaul,...
Court orders Meta to pay Spanish media companies nearly half a billion euros for ‘unfair competition’
A Spanish court ruled on Thursday that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, must pay €479 million to national media organisations for...
Court weighs verdict in Spanish media’s €550m data protection case against Meta
A high-profile lawsuit in Madrid, in which Spanish media companies are demanding more than €550 million from the Meta corporation for alleged violations of EU...
Facebook owner Meta closes content moderation centre in Barcelona
Telus Digital, the company responsible for content moderation for Facebook owner, Meta, informed its nearly 2,000 employees on Thursday that it is closing its centre...
AI and trade tensions take centre stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
The world’s largest wireless technology event began on Monday in Barcelona, with the enthusiasm surrounding AI’s potential to revolutionise devices colliding with concerns over escalating...
Undersea cable linking USA & Spain from FB’s Meta ‘part of plan linking 5 continents’
Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has said it will lay an undersea cable stretching across five continents to carry data, including for developing Artificial...
Microsoft to invest €2.2 billion in huge data centre project in Aragón
Tech giant Microsoft is to invest 2.2 billion euros in a huge data centre project in northeastern Spain, regional authorities said on Wednesday as the...
