[bestbits] Platforms consultation: EDRi tool helps responding

[Maryant Fernández]

Dear all,

The European Commission launched a public consultation on the role of
“Internet platforms”
<http://edri.limequery.org/index.php/346935/lang-en>. Its outcome will
become the basis for new EU legislative proposals on online law
enforcement, data protection, privacy, open data and copyright. These
are likely to have an impact internationally, so this is a chance to
shape EU policy!

Therefore, in EDRi we have devoted a lot of efforts to set up an online
tool [1] which contains the European Commission's questions and our
"answering guide":
http://edri.limequery.org/index.php/346935/lang-en

The consultation is biased
<https://edri.org/files/Platforms_consultation_EDRi_comments.pdf> in
many occasions, which makes it more important to gather as many
responses from a human rights perspective as possible.
Tips:
- You don’t have to answer every question (apart from the mandatory
questions on the first page)
- We have colour-coded the questions (green for general questions; red
for data protection...). So, if data protection is the only issue that
you’re interested in, just click through the guide and answer the
questions tagged as “data protection”.
- The consultation is very long. You have the option to save your
answers and continue later.
- You can respond as an individual or as an organisation
- If you want to submit your response via our tool
<http://edri.limequery.org/index.php/346935/lang-en>, please use it
before 24 December, 23:59. You can also respond directly through the
Commission's website until 31 December:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/Platforms/

We hope you find this useful.

Best regards,
Maryant
[1] with technical support from Mozilla

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European Digital Rights
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