The European Union has confirmed the names of more than a dozen platforms that will face the strictest level of regulation under the recently relaunched and expanded e-commerce rules, aka the Digital Services Act (DSA).
European Union, Digital Markets Act (DMA) He wanted to establish an antitrust foundation in the European-based technology sector with the Digital Services Act (DSA) in Turkish. Announcing that it will take steps in this context last year, the European Union has now shared the list of platforms that will be included in this scope.
Antitrust, that is, aimed at preventing monopoly in the sector Digital Services Act (DSA)announced that 19 giant companies that we are all familiar with were included in this scope.
A new era begins for 19 giant platforms
The Digital Services Act’s (DSA) listing comes across as a mix of familiar digital services, from social media apps to search engines and app stores.
While the lion’s share of regulated platforms are developed by US-based for-profit firms, several international companies and one nonprofit (like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia) company takes its place in this list.
The list of 19 platforms identified in the first phase;
- Alibaba AliExpress
- Amazon Store
- Apple App Store
- bing
- Booking.com
- Google Play
- Google Maps
- Google Search
- Google Shopping
- Snapchat
- TikTok
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
- Zalando
Among the risks companies on the list should consider freedom of expression; civic discourse and electoral processes; public safety and public health; gender-based violence; Artificial intelligence or algorithmic harm to fundamental rights such as child safety and mental health is located.
DSA also imposes some limitations on micro-targeted advertising. The processing of sensitive data or the use of children’s information for ad targeting is prohibited under the legislation. Apart from this, in e-commerce marketplaces, in order to control the sellers. authentication is also requested.
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