Electronic Signature Legality for Technology Industry in European Union

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the european union is preparing a digital constitution which will govern the influence of giant tech platforms like google facebook amazon and others meanwhile lawmakers at the european parliament are preparing their position on how to enable users have more control over what they are exposed to online it comes as consumers are increasingly vulnerable to unprecedented levels of data collection and targeted advertisement from internet giants what is illegal in the real world should be made illegal online as well mep say we will try to make uh the online environment more safe and more trustworthy for uh users when they discuss politics for people who shop goods for uh you know for businesses using the platforms to to reach out to the businesses and for for fundamental rights so we want to give users of the platforms more rights towards the platforms the digital services act will update the existing e-commerce directive established in 2000 at that time facebook didn't even exist the legislation will give the eu the ability to erase content containing hate speech disinformation or counterfeit products users will also be able to stop personalized targeted advertisements but critics say there are sufficient lupus in the text which could be misused the main problem from my point of view are the cross-border removal orders which could lead to the direction of fully legal content in one country just based on a decision taken in another one this is particularly dangerous in the current rule of law crisis where some of the member states are back sliding towards authoritarianism giving the tools to diminish freedom of expression is inacceptable and it will definitely not help us to create more smooth digital single market now the european parliament has to agree with the european council on the text before the law will come into force in all 27 states chando jirosh euro news brussels