EU Warns Facebook, Google, Twitter Over T&Cs

By Natalia Drozdiak

BRUSSELS--The European Union's executive body and other national consumer authorities on Friday gave Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Twitter Inc. one month to address scams and fraud and bring their terms in line with the bloc's rules or face "enforcement action."

The European Commission said they had met this week with the three companies, along with other national consumer authorities, to discuss the growing number of complaints from consumers lamenting they had been target of fraud or scams and subject to unfair terms and services.

The companies agreed to propose changes in those areas, the EU said.

"The commission and the consumer authorities will review the final proposals," the EU said. "If they are not satisfactory, consumer authorities could ultimately resort to enforcement action."

Write to Natalia Drozdiak at natalia.drozdiak@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

March 17, 2017 09:01 ET (13:01 GMT)

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