Behind the European Union’s plan to rewrite the rules of online life New Atlanticist by Nick Fouriezos
A woman working on her laptop in Paris on May 26, 2020. Photo by Arnaud Finistre / Hans Lucas via Reuters Connect.
With autocratic regimes more aggressively restricting freedom of speech on the internet, it is all the more important for the European Union (EU) and the United States to put forward a positive, alternative model of online regulation, said two European Commission policy officials Wednesday at the 360/Open Summit, hosted by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.
Prabhat Agarwal, head of the Commission’s Digital Services and Platforms unit, and Gerard de Graaf, director for the digital transformation in the Commission’s Communications Networks, Content and Technology directorate-general, were the leading drafters of the Digital Services Act (DSA). The bill is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive regulatory frame
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“Maybe prohibiting certain practices such as microtargeting at certain times, I think that’s the debate that we need to have on political ads.”
– Renate Nikolay, Head of Cabinet of Commission Vice-President Jourova.
Top Story: The use of microtargeting for online political advertising could come in for new rules as part of legislation being readied by the European Commission, it has been revealed. Read on for more.
Podcast: This week, we take a look at the Commission’s plans for protecting the future of platform workers in the EU. You’ll hear from Commission representatives on the EU’s future objectives in this field, and we also speak to Ludovic Voet, Confederal Secretary at European Trade Union Confederation on the need to better protect the workers of the gig economy in Europe.
Ludhiana: Two days after Mathura police arrested a Ludhiana-based interior designer Yogeshwar Sood for allegedly committing a fraud of Rs 1.31 crore on a jeweller of Mathura, the cops have now booked the same jeweller and his two brothers for duping Sood and his brother of Rs 95 lakh.
According to the FIR lodged by the Sadar police on Saturday, the Mathura-based jeweller brothers had hired Sood brothers for the interior designing of their house, for which a deal was fixed for Rs 9.50 crore, out of which the jewellers have not paid Rs 95 lakh. The jeweller brothers instead got a false FIR lodged against him and his brother for Rs 1.31-crore fraud, claiming that the interior designers did not pay for the ‘chhatra’ they had made for them. The Soods had offered the ‘chhatra’ at Badrinath temple in Uttarakhand.
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