“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.
