Putting meaningful transparency at heart of the Digital Services Act

As organizations committed to upholding democratic values and fundamental rights, we see an urgent need to commit internet platforms to a higher level of transparency.

Together with AlgorithmWatch, the European Policy Centre and others we propose that EU should

• maintain the key principles of the limited liability regime outlined in the e-Commerce Directive. This is the right approach to dealing with illegal user-generated content, but this framework must be enhanced and refined.
• introduce binding transparency frameworks that enable privacy-respecting access to data for scrutiny.

We welcome the European Commission’s proposed Digital Services Act (DSA), and urge EU policymakers to use this “Modern Rulebook for Digital Services” in Europe as an opportunity to hold platforms to account.

Download the full position paper here: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/governing-platforms-final-recommendations