Verfassungsblog (Sep 2024)

Auditing Platforms under the Digital Services Act

  • Giovanni De Gregorio,
  • Oreste Pollicino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.59704/f09bcd357d6c99b0
Journal volume & issue
no. 2366-7044

Abstract

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Taming the power of online platforms has become one of the central areas of the European Union's policy in the digital age. The DSA increases the accountability of very large online platforms and very large search engines by introducing an auditing system. The audit process as defined by the DSA risks producing counterproductive consequences for the European policy objectives. From a constitutional perspective, the outsourcing of competence and decision-making from public to private actors articulates a system of compliance and enforcement based on multiple centres of power.

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