7 Amendments of Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR related to 2020/2018(INL)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas the aim of a review of the DSA is to update the civil and commercial laws governing responsibility for online platforms and hosting service providers to provide certainty and safety for companies, users and society as a whole.
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that wherever it is technically and legally possible and reasonable, intermediaries should be required to enable the anonymous use of their services and payment for them, since anonymity effectively prevents unauthorised data disclosure and identity theft; notes that where the Directive on Consumer RightsUnion law requires commercial traders to communicate their identity, providers of majoronline market places could be obliged to verify their identity of the traders acting in a professional or non-professional capacity, while in other cases the right to use digital services anonymously shcould be upheld;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that since the online activities of individuals allow for deep insights into their personality and make it possible to manipulate them, the collection and use of personal data notably by systemic platforms and social networks concerning the use of digital services, should be subjected to a specific privacy framework and limited to the extent necessary to provide and bill the use of the service;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that automated tools are unable to differentiate illegal content from content that is legal in a given context; highlights that human review of automated reports by service providers does not solve this problem as private staff lack the independence, qualification and accountability of public authorities; stresses, therefore,could improve the functioning of content recognition technologies to differentiate illegal content from content that is legal where it is legally provided and could enhance existing practices if use in combination with human review and an increased transparency on their functioning; underlines that to ensure the well-being and independence of the personnel, the staff should receive proper training and adequate psychological support to develop skills that help them and to discern on the need to collaborate with public authorities where needed; stresses that the Digital Services Act should explicitly prohibit any obligation on hosting service providers or other technical intermediaries to use automated tools for content moderation, and refrain from imposing notice-and- stay-down mechanismsunless otherwise specified in existing legal text; insists that content moderation procedures used by providers should not lead to any ex-ante control measures based on automated tools or upload-filtering of general monitoring of uploaded content;
Amendment 41 #
4. Stresses that the final responsibility for enforcing the law, deciding on the legality of online activities and ordering hosting service providersshould always rest with independent judicial and other competent public authorities; hosting service providers has a duty of care to ensure a safe online environment for users and therefore their responsibility to remove or disable access to illegal content as soon as possible should rest with independent judicial authoritiesbe based on existing legislation and jurisprudence; considers that only a hosting service provider that has actual knowledge of illegal content and its illegal nature, through a valid notice, should be subject to content removal obligations and to ensure that the same illegal content cannot be re-uploaded;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that the spread of disinformation such as false and racist information on social media should be contained, also by giving users control over content proposed to them; stresses that curating content on the basis of tracking user actions should require the user’s consent; proposes that users of social networks should have a right to see their timeline in chronological order; suggests that dominant platforms should provide users with an API to have content curated by software or services of their choice;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that online marketplaces should be forbidden from imposing a locked ecosystem for the use of digital products sold on their services; a high level of interoperability should be ensured by providing these products in a format that do not limit the use of the product exclusively to a certain proprietary digital ecosystem.