Facebook whistleblower calls on MEPs to make sure DSA won’t be ‘dead letter’

 

While revisiting the recently-agreed digital regulations, European Parliament lawmakers were joined by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen who called on them to do everything necessary to ensure that the DSA will be a “success story”.

MEPs from the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee (IMCO) gathered on Wednesday  (18 May) to look back at the negotiations that led to the inter-institutional agreement about the EU’s two flagship laws aiming at regulating the digital “wild west”: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA).

“From my point of view, the DMA and DSA are perhaps the two most important texts in the history of digital regulation”, said the now former French Secretary of State for Digital, Cédric O, also attending the meeting. He was at the front line of negotiations as France is holding the rotating presidency of the EU Council. (...)