Regulators are playing whack-a-mole with dangerous goods on huge shopping apps
It reckons there are no effective gatekeepers in place to stop them.In the European Commission’s action against AliExpress, the regulator focused on the e-commerce platform whose under-resourcing around compliance allowed malicious traders to circumvent the rules and that its internal risk assessments failed.
- ▪It reckons there are no effective gatekeepers in place to stop them.In the European Commission’s action against AliExpress, the regulator focused on the e-commerce platform whose under-resourcing around compliance allowed malicious traders
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