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A Romanian man passes in front of a shop window of an Orange store that displays a huge 5G advertise banner, in Bucharest, Romania. EFE/EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government wants people to believe that it is a crime to provide humanitarian assistance to asylum-seekers, refugees, and migrants. In Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wants people to believe that LGBTI rights are “an ideology”—and a forbidden one at that. These are the latest worrying examples of Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth,” a dystopian depiction of government distorting the...

e-Commerce Directive"), a proposal for a Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act). These proposals are expected to affect various types of providers of digital services (such as marketplaces, social media platforms, content-sharing platforms) in the European Union (the " EU") and to create a safer and more open digital space while further developing the European Single Market for digital services. The choice of a regulation that will be directly applicable in all Member States (instead of a directive) shall guarantee the implementation of uniform ...

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 On February 10, 2021, the European Data Protection Supervisor (“EDPS”) published two opinions on the European Commission’s proposals for a Digital Services Act (“DSA”) and a Digital Markets Act (“DMA”). The proposed DSA and DMA are part of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European Strategy for Data and have two main goals: (1) creating a safer digital space in which the fundamental rights of all users of digital services are protected, and (2) establishing a level playing field to foster innovation, growth and competitiveness i...

The European Union should prohibit targeted advertising as part of new rules against Big Tech platforms in the bloc’s Digital Services Act, the EU’s institutional data protection watchdog has said. The recommendation comes as part of an opinion from the EU data protection supervisor (EDPS) on the European Commission’s proposals for the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which the EDPS released on Wednesday (10 February). The Commission’s December proposal for a Digital Services Act pitched the idea of greater transparency obligations for platforms in the fie...

Online platform giants will be forced to abide by a broad range of obligations as part of ambitious new plans laid out by the European Commission in its Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA) on Tuesday (15 December). The DMA proposals will see so-called ‘gatekeeper platforms’ prohibited from engaging in practices deemed to be of detriment to “contestability and fairness” in online markets. Fines for non-compliance with the rules have been pitched at a maximum of 10% of a company’s annual worldwide turnover. Platforms that engage in “systematic non-compliance” ...