How well did #BigTech perform in their first #DSA Risk Assessments, and what must improve? The DSA Civil Society Coordination Group, in which AlgorithmWatch was a part of, analyzed the first reports under the EU Digital Services Act, identifying best practices, key gaps, and steps forward. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gkkQSpdi
📢 How did Big Tech platforms perform in their first Risk Assessment Reports under the EU’s Digital Services Act, and how can they improve going forward? Today, the DSA Civil Society Coordination Group releases its brief: an Initial Analysis on the First Round of Risk Assessment Reports under the EU Digital Services Act (#DSA). The purpose of this feedback is to identify key trends, useful practices and gaps in this first iteration, so that future risk assessments and mitigation measures required under Article 34 and 35 of the DSA are more tangible and do more to advance user safety. This brief focuses on four key aspects: 🔹 Identifying useful practices – what to keep for next time; 🔹 Why it is crucial to focus on platform design when assessing risk; 🔹 Trust with users and regulators can only be fostered by providing data; 🔹 Meaningful stakeholder consultation is the key to a safer online environment. The DSA CSO Coordination Group, convened and coordinated by CDT Europe, is an informal coalition of civil society organisations, academics and public interest technologists that advocates for the protection of human rights, in the implementation and enforcement of the EU Digital Services Act. Thanks everyone for their input, as well as Recommender Systems Taskforce and People vs Big Tech for their precious contributions. You can read the full brief here and on our website, link in the comments 👇🏻 Access Now, AI Forensics, AlgorithmWatch, Alliance4Europe, Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, Avaaz, Center for Countering Digital Hate, Center for Studies in Freedom of Expression (CELE), Civil Liberties Union for Europe, Committee to Protect Journalists, Das NETTZ, Ekō , Eticas.ai, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), EU DisinfoLab, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting, European Digital Rights, European Federation of Journalists, European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), The Future of Free Speech, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V., The Global Disinformation Index, Global Witness, HateAid, Human Rights Watch, IMS (International Media Support), Integrity Institute, interface (formerly SNV), Internews, ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), Association #Jesuislà #Jesuislà #Jesuislà , Mnemonic, Mozilla, Fundacja Panoptykon, People vs Big Tech, Search for Common Ground, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, 5Rights