Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion

Ms Sabha Greene:

There is now an obligation in the EU regulation requiring a very large platform to conduct a risk assessment. When the platform has identified risks, it has to put in place mitigation measures and be audited. I would imagine that process, which I believe is annual, will catch those kinds of things. The European Commission will be the lead enforcement body regarding the obligations related to risk assessment, audit and mitigation.

The Deputy mentioned how the algorithms change. Not in our legislation but in an EU regulation, there is an obligation to give access to data. That is meant to help us build more information and knowledge, on the part of regulators and others, as to how the algorithms are working.

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