The EU Digital Services Act is a set of rules aimed at making the internet safer within the EU, but applies to all services that are available within the EU. It ensures that digital platforms, including social media, marketplaces, and other online services, act responsibly in handling illegal content and protecting user rights online. The act emphasises transparency, accountability, and user safety, targeting everything from hate speech to counterfeit products.
See the attached IFTAS DSA Guide for guidance on DSA compliance for micro and small operations.
Digital Services Act (DSA) Explainer
The DSA reporting API contains specifications that may be helpful in constructing reporting workflow, moderation workflow, or transparency reports. See also Information for Software Developers and Designers
DSA Reporting Categories:
- Animal welfare
- Data protection and privacy violations
- Illegal or harmful speech
- Intellectual property infringements
- Negative effects on civic discourse or elections
- Non-consensual behaviour
- Pornography or sexualized content
- Protection of minors
- Risk for public security
- Scams and/or fraud
- Self-harm
- Scope of platform service
- Unsafe and/or illegal products
- Violence
DSA Category Specifications
- Animal Harm
- Adult Sexual Material
- Age-Specific Restrictions Concerning Minors
- Age-Specific Restrictions
- Biometric Data Breach
- Child Sexual Abuse Material
- Content Promoting Eating Disorders
- Coordinated Harm
- Copyright Infringement
- Dangerous Toys
- Data Falsification
- Defamation
- Design Infringement
- Discrimination
- Disinformation
- Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
- Gender-Based Violence
- Geographic Indications Infringements
- Geographical Requirements
- Goods/Services Not Permitted to Be Offered on the Platform
- Grooming/Sexual Enticement of Minors
- Hate Speech
- Human Exploitation
- Human Trafficking
- Illegal Organizations
- Image-Based Sexual Abuse (excluding content depicting minors)
- Impersonation or Account Hijacking
- Inauthentic Accounts
- Inauthentic Listings
- Inauthentic User Reviews
- Incitement to Violence and/or Hatred
- Insufficient Information on Traders
- Language Requirements
- Misinformation
- Missing Processing Ground for Data
- Non-Consensual Image Sharing
- Non-Consensual Items Containing Deepfake or Similar Technology Using a Third Party’s Features
- Nudity
- Online Bullying/Intimidation
- Patent Infringement
- Phishing
- Pyramid Schemes
- Regulated Goods and Services
- Right to Be Forgotten
- Risk for Environmental Damage
- Risk for Public Health
- Self-Mutilation
- Stalking
- Suicide
- Terrorist Content
- Trade Secret Infringement
- Trademark Infringement
- Unlawful Sale of Animals
- Unsafe Challenges
- Other
Decision Visibility
This attribute describes the visibility restriction of specific items of information provided by the recipient of the service.
- Removal of content
- Disabling access to content
- Demotion of content
- Age restricted content
- Restricting interaction with content
- Labelled content
- Other restriction
Monetary payments suspension, termination or other restriction
This is an attribute that gives information about monetary payments suspension, termination or other restriction
- Suspension of monetary payments
- Termination of monetary payments
- Other restriction
Decision about the provisioning of the service
This is an attribute that tells us about the suspension or termination of the provision of the service.
- Partial suspension of the provision of the service
- Total suspension of the provision of the service
- Partial termination of the provision of the service
- Total termination of the provision of the service
Decision about the account’s status
This is an attribute that tells us about the account’s status.
- Suspension of the account
- Termination of the account
