{"id":809,"date":"2025-07-28T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/temu-users-face-a-high-risk-of-finding-illegal-products-eu-says\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:30:37","slug":"temu-users-face-a-high-risk-of-finding-illegal-products-eu-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/temu-users-face-a-high-risk-of-finding-illegal-products-eu-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Temu users face a \u2018high risk\u2019 of finding illegal products, EU says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/STK160_Temu_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Temu users in the European Union are at \u201chigh risk\u201d of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c783cc52-da32-4236-a7b1-46f0923e918e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported earlier by <em>The Financial Times<\/em><\/a>. Preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_25_1913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings<\/a> from the European Commission\u2019s investigation into the platform uncovered baby toys, small electronics, and other items on Temu considered counterfeit, unsafe, or \u201cnon-compliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/5\/31\/24168603\/temu-digital-services-act-eu-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the EU designated<\/a> Temu a \u201cVery Large Online Platform\u201d under its Digital Services Act (DSA), which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23845672\/eu-digital-services-act-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holds online platforms accountable<\/a> for hosting illegal goods, services, and content. The EU later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/30\/24283724\/temu-is-under-a-microscope-in-the-eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened an investigation<\/a> into Temu over concerns that it\u2019s not doing enough to keep illegal products off its ultra-cheap marketplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Temu now has a chance to respond to the EU\u2019s findings. If the EU ultimately finds that Temu did violate its rules, the platform could face fees of up to 6 percent of its global annual revenue. The Commission says it will continue to investigate other suspected rule violations on Temu, including its \u201caddictive design features, the transparency of its recommendation systems, and its access to data for researchers.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temu users in the European Union are at \u201chigh risk\u201d of coming across illegal products while shopping on the platform, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}