18 Amendments of Eva KAILI related to 2020/2018(INL)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Underscores the need for the Digital Single Market policies to identify general standards of acceptable digital infrastructure in the design of the « technological stack » of the digital services or the digital/smart products; asks the Commission to define and apply standards that make sure that hardware, software, code, connectivity systems and storage/data management architecture are set by default in a way that protect the privacy of the consumer, that the consumer’s data are exclusively used within the nodes of the connecting devices that improve the consumer’s experience and they are not transferred to third parties for other commercial uses without the explicit consent of the consumer ;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Calls on the Commission to provide a clearly defined notice-and- action framework for the content hosting platforms to use in the fight against illegal content; stresses that such a framework has to guarantee fundamental rights of users through access to judicial redress and the right to appeal;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Believes that the EU should develop its own adequate capacity for cloud services as well as to facilitate the development of a decentralized, interoperable system of data governance that enables the efficient use of local infrastructures, including fog, mist and edge computing; asks on the Commission to enable the development of these local data infrastructures to support the expansion of IoT consumer products, IoT industrial products, and Smart Cities applications;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Reminds of the incompetence of current automated tools in grasping the importance of context for specific pieces of content; takes therefore the view that the Digital Services Act should not contain any obligation for the use of automated tools in content moderation; believes that any voluntary automated measures put in place by the content hosting platforms should be subject to human oversight and to full transparency of design and performance;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2 c. Takes the position that any content moderation measure in the Digital Services Act should concern illegal content only as it is defined in national jurisdictions and should not include legally vague and undefined terms, such as “harmful content”, as targeting such content would put fundamental rights and freedom of speech at serious risk;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)

2 d. Emphasises the need to regulate content curation through giving more control to users on the way content is ranked to them, including options to a ranking outside their ordinary content consumption habits and to opt out completely of any content curation; strongly believes that the design and performance of such recommendation systems should be subject to transparency;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)

2 e. Considers that content hosting platforms should be obliged to report any illegal content constituting a serious crime to the relevant law enforcement authorities upon becoming aware of it;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Underlines that the only way for users of digital services to be identified in an equivalent manner compared to offline services is the recognition of a pan- European digital identification; reminds in this regard that Member States and European institutions have to guarantee the security of the European digital identification;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Recommends that the Commission explores the expansion of the definition of abuse of a dominant market position to include therein the possession of significant volumes of data in order to mitigate the concentration of data by large digital service providers and online platforms which may result in self- preferencing activities, higher barriers to entry as well as diminished consumer choice;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5 b. Calls on the Commission to continue its exploration of the commercial uses of Blockchain technology, especially in relation to smart contracts and their use in consumer products and services having in mind the consumer protection and privacy requirements;

2020/05/27
Committee: LIBE

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Calls on the Commission to coordinate the activities of Digital Single Market with the ones of the Capital Markets Union, especially regarding the methodology that CMU adopts for the transition from open banking to open finance, in order to make sure that innovative enterprises will be able to have access to critical data so as to improve their capacity in developing digital products and services that the consumers value ; underscores the statement of the Executive VP of the Commission Mr Vestager on this matter and asks any future regulatory framework proposed by the Commission regarding the EU's Data Strategy to have explicit recommendations on this issue;

2020/05/18
Committee: IMCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Underscores the need the Digital Single Market policies to identify general standards of acceptable digital infrastructure in the design of the « technological stack » of the digital services or the digital/smart products ; asks the Commission to define and apply standards that make sure that hardware, software, code, connectivity systems and storage/data management architecture are set by default in a way that protect the privacy of the consumer, that the consumer’s data are exclusively used within the nodes of the connecting devices that improve the consumer’s experience and they are not transferred to third parties for other commercial uses without the explicit consent of the consumer;

2020/05/18
Committee: IMCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Considers that the current transparency and information requirements set out in the E-Commerce Directive on information society services providers and their business customers, and the minimum information requirements on commercial communications, should be substantially strengthened; for providers of information society services which are directed primarily at consumers, which act as the intermediary between the trader and the consumer or which provide the trading interface for the online sale of goods1а; __________________ 1а Justification: Addressing existing shortcomings in the transparency and obligation requirements of the E- Commerce Directive through a “one-size- fits-all” approach may not be the most appropriate solution. Instead, a market- relevant and consumer-oriented alternative would consist in promoting rules which account of the fact that different types of services merit different rules. Setting stronger consumer protection rules can be consistent with the promotion of ICT deployment in Europe, i.e. in setting specific rules for information society service providers depending on whether they are a concerned party in the provision of a business-to-consumer good or service, while balancing the need to safeguard the smoothness and speed of online business transactions.

2020/05/18
Committee: IMCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to require ~~service provider~~the providers of information society services which are directed primarily at consumers, which act as the intermediary between the trader and the consumer or which provide the trading interface for the online sale of goods to verify the information and identity of the business partners with whom they have a contractual commercial relationship, and to ensure that the information they provide is accurate and up-to-date;

2020/05/18
Committee: IMCO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Commission to introduce enforceable obligations on ~~internet service providers aimed~~providers of information society services which are directed primarily at consumers acting as the intermediary between the trader and the consumer or which provide the trading interface for the online sale of goods, that would aim at increasing transparency and information; considers that these obligations should be enforced by appropriate, effective and dissuasive penalties;

2020/05/18
Committee: IMCO