The Group of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament has improved consumer protection, put a stop on limitless gathering of data from consumers by the providers of digital services and opened the black box of algorithms, which many digital platforms use to abuse their clients’ data. All of this was made possible under the leadership of Christel Schaldemose, the European Parliament’s negotiator on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and S&D member in the committee on internal market and consumer protection. The DSA is EU legislation, proposed by the European Commission to the European Parliament and the Member States of the EU. It is meant to entirely update the current EU rules for digital services, which date back to the year 2000.
