{"id":41308,"date":"2020-09-04T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=ea717e57939df3fa62e0bc547cb7009d"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:27:43","slug":"digital-services-act-google-asks-european-commission-to-clarify-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/digital-services-act-google-asks-european-commission-to-clarify-responsibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Services Act: Google asks European Commission to clarify responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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4 Sep, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200b<\/span>Google has responded to the European Commission\u2019s public consultation regarding the Digital Services Act, submitting a 135-page document which points out the need to clarify the EU\u2019s expectations towards tech companies.<\/p>\n

In the submission, Google urged the European Commission to avoid a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, as well as elaborate on the responsibilities to which the tech industry will have to adhere\u00a0if the legislation is passed.<\/p>\n

The Digital Services Act<\/a>, which was first unveiled in 2019, is expected to provide the EU with a raft of legal powers to influence how social media platforms govern hate speech, extremist material, and political advertising.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The legislation would directly impact Google\u2019s video-hosting service YouTube, which has been criticised in the past<\/a>\u00a0for spreading harmful conspiracy theories, fake news, and hate speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the document submitted to the European Commission, Google agreed that tech companies should act fast in order to immediately remove or disable access to harmful or illegal content. However, the tech giant also raised the concern that hosting platforms may be forced to prioritise speed over cautious decision-making.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> announcing the submission, Google\u2019s SVP of Global Affairs Kent Walker said that the Digital Services Act \u201cshould reflect the wide range of services offered by the tech industry\u201d, as opposed to adopting a common approach for every company.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo two services are the same and the new act should be rooted in objectives and principles that can be applied, as appropriate, across this broad, diverse ecosystem.\u00a0 This will ensure that everyone – platforms regulators, people and businesses –\u00a0 are responsible for the parts they play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Walker added that Google is \u201ccommitted to providing greater transparency for our users and governments so that they better understand the content they are seeing and how to notify us of concerns\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe DSA should support these kinds of constructive transparency measures while ensuring that platforms can continue to protect user privacy, ensure commercially sensitive information is not revealed and prevent bad actors from gaming the system,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The consultation period for the Digital Services Act is set to conclude on 8 September.<\/p>\n

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Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

4 Sep, 2020 <\/p>\n

\u200bGoogle has responded to the European Commission\u2019s public consultation regarding the Digital Services Act, submitting a 135-page document which points out the need to clarify the EU\u2019s expectatio…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41309,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41308\/revisions\/41309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}