Activities of Alexis GEORGOULIS related to 2020/2022(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed
Amendments (13)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for all protective measures which might at the same time be detrimental to fundamental rights to remain tasks for the State that are subject to thorough judicial review and for no public- authority tasks to be transferred to private- sector firms; considers that these sector- specific rules may ensure unhindered access to media services and content, as well as advance freedom and pluralism of the media;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Reiterates the work of the Human Rights Committees of the United Nations in further elaborating interpretatively the texts of the UN Human Rights Conventions, in order be fit for the digital era, along with the work of the Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Ensures that private agreements between artists and companies do not contravene the fundamental rights of the artists, creators and all personnel employed in the creative and cultural sectors, respecting their work and their intellectual property, both financially and ethically; highlights the need to ensure a fair remuneration from all activities entailing creativity for all stakeholders involved in the process, and with due regard to their right to collective bargaining;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses out that any rule on content moderation for service providers must ensure full respect for freedom of expression, which according to Art. 11 CFREU, includes "freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart Information and ideas without interference by public authorities and regardless of frontiers'', and that access to a wide variety of opinions contributes to the development of open and democratic societies even when such views are controversial or unpalatable;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Emphasises that the sharing of personal data and the processing of data for the purposes of the new Digital Single Act must respect the safeguards set out by the GDPR and the rules of the protection of data put in place in the Union; highlights that there is no need for any 'lex specialis' derogation from the General Rules of Data Protection;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Highlights the need to ensure that the collection and processing of all personal data, which does not fall under the scope of Directive (EU) 2016/680 on the Protection of natural persons with regard to processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purpose of law enforcement, or under the scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is done in accordance with the principles of legality, necessity and proportionality, as established by Article 9 of the Council of Europe's Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data (Convention No. 108);
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Believes that platform liability should be tailored, in order to respect the size of the operator and a clear distinction on the platforms' engagement with the content based on clear and verifiable criteria and aspects, such as editorial functions, actual knowledge and a certain degree of control; furthermore believes that any system proposed, should be accompanied by robust set of fundamental rights safeguards and adequate independent and impartial public oversight;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Strongly believes that the issue of platform workers must be addressed by a specific, dedicated, labour-oriented piece of legislation and not in an act dealing with digital services; suggests that platform operators should be responsible as employers for platform workers, and thus they should be liable to provide quality work, individual labour rights, social protection training and fulfilling health and safety at work requirements; reiterates that, in case of a provision of a legal presumption that platform workers are workers, it would ensure that requisite responsibility of platform operators as employers, to guarantee labour rights and to contribute to social security for platform workers;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Highlights the need to find an effective way to enforce properly and appropriately intellectual property rights thus fostering cultural and creative sectors without interfering with freedom of expression; believes that this balance should include proactive measures to be employed when necessary, in order to ensure that illegal and harmful content is not only taken down from online platforms but also that it stays down;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Recognises the need to define companies' human rights responsibilities in line with the ''respect, protect, remedy'' framework set out under the UN Guiding Principles and Business and Human Rights, which should be promptly turned into legally binding standards of International Law, by requiring in particular a human rights approach to the development of terms of service and Community standards as well as policies governing access to and use of their platform;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Highlights the need to ensure transparency to the maximum extent feasible to all measures taken under the new Act, including those taken by Member States' and Union authorities;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 i (new)
Paragraph 4 i (new)
4i. Emphasises the need to establish effective and timely remedies accessible to all, without discrimination, that are independent and impartial;