ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jan Penfrat

Jan Penfrat is a Senior Policy Advisor at European Digital Rights (EDRi), where he leads the work on platform regulation. Before joining EDRi, he was a freelance technology reporter at the German IT magazine Golem.de and co-founded the Privacy Training Center.

POSTS BY Jan Penfrat

08 November 2022

The DSA fails to reign in the most harmful digital platform businesses – but it is still useful

While the DSA has just been crafted carefully enough to avoid major damage to digital rights in the EU, it has focussed so much on who must delete what kind of content within which time frame, that it missed the bigger picture: no content moderation policy in the world will protect us from harmful online content as long as we do not address the dominant, yet incredibly damaging surveillance business model of most large tech firms. Continue reading >>