{"id":113722,"date":"2023-04-26T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-targets-google-facebook-twitter-and-other-very-large-tech-companies-with-stricter-rules\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T08:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:20:52","slug":"eu-targets-google-facebook-twitter-and-other-very-large-tech-companies-with-stricter-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-targets-google-facebook-twitter-and-other-very-large-tech-companies-with-stricter-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"EU targets Google, Facebook, Twitter and other \u2018very large\u2019 tech companies with stricter rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113722\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Social media giants, Google, Alibaba, Amazon and Wikipedia are among the big tech companies that have been labelled &#8220;Very Large Online Platforms&#8221; by the European Commission and will now have to adhere to tighter rules under the bloc&#8217;s landmark Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU&#8217;s executive unveiled its first list of 19 companies deemed &#8220;very large&#8221; on Tuesday. They received the accolade because they have at least 45 million monthly active users.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen have been dubbed Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs). They include Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Booking.com, Facebook, Google Play, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Zalando. Bing and Google Search have meanwhile been designated as Very Large Online Search Engines.<\/p>\n<p>These companies now have four months to comply with the full set of new obligations under the DSA. The piece of legislation came into force in November and aims to strengthen the protection of users&#8217; rights online, and provide greater transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>They will, for instance, be required to give clear information on why they recommend certain information to certain users and allow these users to opt out; provide users with a simple tool to flag illegal content and with easily understandable terms and conditions; take stronger steps to counter the spread of illegal content and disinformation; and give researchers access to publicly available data. Crucially, they will have to allow experts from the newly-created European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT), an EU agency, to assess whether their algorithm is in line with the various obligations.<\/p>\n<p>A Commission official said that the executive is currently engaging with a number of other services, including several pornographic websites, to determine whether they reach the 45 million active user threshold and should thus be designated as very large. They stressed that the DSA is &#8220;quite dynamic&#8221; and that new services could be added in the coming months and years while others could be removed.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, whose change of leadership and mass layoffs in recent months have caused worry for regulators, the official said that a number of meetings between Breton and CEO Elon Musk have taken place to boost readiness preparations. These very large companies will be supervised by Commission experts while member states have until February 2024 to set up national agencies to oversee smaller platforms and search engines that will also have to respect these obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3HCkxqf\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/eu-targets-google-facebook-twitter-and-other-very-large-tech-companies-with-stricter-rules\/\">EU targets Google, Facebook, Twitter and other \u2018very large\u2019 tech companies with stricter rules<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[274,678,839,9719,960,978,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-113722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-stricter-rules","tag-target","tag-twitter","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}