DSA enforcement, German data strategy

 “We are working hard on this @ThierryBreton”

– wrote Elon Musk, owner of X, on 25 August, the day of the Digital Services Act enforcement.

Story of the week: While the European Commission’s directorate in charge of implementing the Digital Services Act (DSA) has yet to be finalised, the new team is already besieged by challenges, including legal complaints, NGOs’ demands and alleged technical limitations. The legal complaints were filed to the Court of Justice of the European Union in June by Zalando and in July by Amazon. A group of 56 civil society organisations issued a letter to the Commission regarding election manipulation on 23 August. Eventually, the Computer & Communications Industry Association sent a letter on 29 August, focusing on legal and technical issues of the current Transparency Database. Read more.

Don’t miss: Germany launched a new data strategy to untap the potential of data by using it more effectively, as the Ministry of Economy discovered that 80% of industrially generated data is not used further. “So far, data has far too often remained unused and thus lacked digital innovation. This applies to industrial as well as public data. We want and need to change that,” Digital Minister Volker Wissing emphasised. The new National Data Strategy builds on the existing Data Strategy 2021 and aims to strengthen digital innovation and improve German competitiveness.” The data strategy complements the requirements from Europe and now forms the second important guideline for data policy – with clear timelines and mandates for action for us in Parliament and the German government,” Green MP Tobias Bacherle told EURACTIV. Read more.