Proposed by the European Commission in
December last year, the Digital Services Act (DSA) forces the tech giants to do
more to tackle illegal content such as hate speech and child sexual abuse
material on their platforms.
However, Greens lawmaker Patrick Breyer,
who is responsible for shepherding the DSA through Parliament on behalf of the
assembly’s civil liberties and justice committee, wants more emphasis on
fundamental rights and digital privacy in the rules.
The committee on Wednesday adopted his
proposals, which will need to be agreed by two other committees looking into
the draft rules. Parliament aims to come up with a common position by the end
of this year.
“It is clear that the European Parliament
proposal will be much more ambitious than the Commission’s proposal, in some
aspects it could be groundbreaking,” Breyer told Reuters in an interview.
His proposals include the right to use and
pay for digital services anonymously wherever reasonably feasible, phasing out
behavioural and personalised targeting for non-commercial and political
advertising and no obligation on platforms to block access to content.
The final parliament proposal will have to
be thrashed out with EU countries, with the rules likely to come into force
next year.
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