The Digital Services Act, DSA is part of a larger digital package that the EU Commission proposed in December 2020. The second part is the Digital Markets Act (DMA), on which there was already an agreement at the end of March 2022. The “Digital Services Act” is primarily intended to limit the market power of tech giants such as Facebook and Google with stricter rules. While the DMA clarifies competition law issues, among other things, and received its final version last month, this has now happened on April 23, 22, after a 16-hour round of negotiations with the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Digital Services Act
“Our new rules will protect online users, ensure freedom of expression and open up new opportunities for companies.” EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote this on Twitter after negotiators from the European Parliament and the EU states met early Saturday morning Brussels agreed on a Digital Services Act (DSA), which is intended to ensure stricter supervision of online platforms and more protection for consumers.
The Digital Services Act, DSA is intended, among other things, to ensure that illegal content such as hate postings, fake news, etc. be removed from the internet more quickly and that harmful disinformation and war propaganda are shared less. In addition, providers of digital services should benefit from legal certainty and uniform EU rules. Large platforms (at least 45 million users) should follow more rules than smaller platforms.
Platforms should be required to disclose the most important parameters of their recommendation algorithms, because on many platforms these decide which news, images, videos or products are shown to users. The Digital Services Act should also impose restrictions on “personalized” advertising, for example for minors and for particularly sensitive data such as political preferences.
The basic principle of the new rules should be: “If something is illegal offline, it should also be online.”
Source: Council of the EU / Press release / April 23, 2022 / 02:17
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