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Since the last report, the French-speaking community of Belgium (Wallonia) has transposed the directive.
Committee members mainly discussed targeted advertising and the measures that very large online platforms would have to take to mitigate the systemic risks coming from the use of their services.
Banning personalised advertising, requiring the disclosure of algorithms, limiting removals (following a user’s notice) to cases of most obvious illegal content, and verify the identity of users on social media. These are some of the proposals put forward by members of the European Parliament Internal Market committee (individually, not as a committee) during an exchange of views with European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager.
The Mexican regulator (IFT) published its 2021 work plan which includes the completion of its second-round review of the asymmetric obligations imposed on Televisa, the main market player in the broadcasting sector.
The Colombian converged regulator (CRC) announces a national alert system for missing children. Mobile network operators (MNOs) will be required to fulfill a set of specific obligations after 12 months following the date on which the CRC informs them that the implementation steps have started. The CRC has not defined this date yet.
It will be up to member states to decide which authority will become the Digital Service Coordinator but “it should be the one representing the views of all the authorities that are responsible in this field”. This is one of the clarifications provided by Irene Roche Laguna of the European Commission during a web conference organised by its Connect University on 28 January 2021.
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