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Qwant claims it “does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe,” and promotes a no-tracking model and European hosting . Regulators have challenged parts of...
Discord’s public policy says deleting your account “permanently deletes identifying information and anonymizes other data,” and disabled accounts stop new processing . However, Discord also retains so...
Discord says it deletes “identifying information” when you delete an account and retains other data as long as needed for its purposes, with some content kept in anonymized or aggregated form and back...
Discord’s public safety documentation and transparency reports say accounts tied to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are immediately disabled, reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited...
Discord’s public privacy policy says the company “retains personal information until we determine it is no longer needed for the processing purposes” and points users to a separate data‑retention poli...
Qwant positions itself as a privacy-first French search engine that “does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe” and is widely listed among top private s...
No major country in the provided reporting has publicly changed the statutory minimum age for consuming pornographic material — the baseline remains 18 in the jurisdictions cited — but a wave of new l...
Platforms like Discord say they generally delete or anonymize user data after account deletion but explicitly reserve the right to hold certain information longer when "legal requirements" or "legal o...
Qwant markets itself as a privacy-first, Europe-hosted search engine that “does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data” and operates under GDPR rules for EU users . It offers tra...
Discord’s public policy states it deletes “identifying information” when an account is deleted but continues to retain and use other data in an anonymized or aggregated form for operational, legal, an...
Discord’s policies say deleting an account removes identifying information and anonymizes other data, but some content can remain in backups for “up to 45 days” and other categories may be kept longer...
’s ties to span market entry, commercial partnerships and third‑party vendors rather than an overt political posture: the company launched service in Israel in 2021 and has contracted Israeli tech fir...
Discord’s public privacy documents say disabling an account halts new data processing while preserving the account for reactivation, whereas deleting an account “permanently deletes identifying inform...
No regulator in the provided reporting has been shown to fine or sanction Yahoo specifically for content moderation or for removing user content; the documented enforcement actions against Yahoo in th...
France’s 2024-25 push to regulate social media focuses chiefly on age limits, platform duties to remove illegal content, and stronger national enforcement of EU rules: the SREN law (Law to Secure and ...
French law balances strong privacy protections—rooted in Civil Code art. 9 and reinforced by the French Data Protection Act and GDPR—with constitutional and ECHR-based freedoms of expression that ofte...