EU: Put Fundamental Rights at Top of Digital Regulation

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image European Commissioner for a Europe fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager, left, and European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton during a news conference on the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 15, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, Pool (Brussels) – The European Union’s draft rules to regulate internet platforms have the potential to better protect human rights online, Human Rights Watch said today. But the European Parliament should be more ambitious…

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