 Yeah, I don't associate you with this word. Oh We are live. Hello. So We are Anna and Demi and we are your EU policy folks that follow Anything the EU does to reform laws that have an influence on the internet and Wikipedia and our other projects So we want to take a literally a couple of minutes to run you through the 10 most important files That Brussels is dealing with right now over to you Anna Thank you, Demi. So platform regulation Wikimedia runs various platforms with various projects. Therefore, we are very interested in One that is now being processed and it's called digital services act in short right now online platforms are not responsible for the content that the users place on on that platform if they don't know about any legal activity and they cannot Actively look for that activity as well This law is 20 years old and now we have social media and other Creatures on the internet that are of course very sophisticated in how they deliver contact Content and we know that they need to do better in many ways So the essay states that platform for example will need to be more transparent and also give users effective ways to complain If anything goes wrong, but our worry is that there is no distinction made between Social media type of content moderation, which is private content moderation and community Let content moderation that is so dear to our hearts and we are looking into how this could backfire and what we can do In the process to change it Then confusingly we have digital markets act, which one word difference make it a very different Legal act that touches also a bit on competition It creates a new category of a gatekeeper Which is a category describing large and wealthy platforms again looking at social media and a like Those gatekeepers will need to do a number of actions to serve users better according to dma Among them to ensure data portability and unbundled services for our apps that they offer for example So it's good for users that we can choose what we want. They do not need however to become interoperable So basically we will not be able to communicate To different messaging services or check different social media platforms Anytime soon from the platform that we actually like or the provider that we like And we focus on it because user rights are an important part of it And we are also checking how this interoperability thing could become actually a thing in dma And finally this information Which is a big topic and also a lot of discussion in our movement about what we do about it and how we tackle it The european commission along with a number of different stakeholders prepared a code to tackle this information That is now being evaluated as to its effectiveness. It's not a lot. It's it's a guideline The focus is now on the follow the money approach Which basically means that we're looking who pays for ads and this is or or content and this is where we start To make things better From our perspective the key is to present to present a multi-level approach That would also include media literacy effort for example, which is somehow overlooked by the commission So this is the platform Responsibility part and dimmy over to you. Yes next big section is data with the data governance act The european union wants to increase data sharing amongst businesses, but also data sharing for the public interest Why do we care about it? Well, because within this act it creates a new category of data intermediaries that comes with a lot of regulation and Liability and if wiki data is considered a data intermediary That might have unwanted consequences for us. So we're following closely the data act is still not proposed But it's supposed to go in the same way it mainly focuses on business to government data sharing and government business data sharing But it also wants to look at the IPR So the intellectual property right side of data where we find the sweet generous database rights Which is a layer of of copyright protect of copyright like protection that stops wiki data from actually Reusing some database some databases and we would love to kill that. So this is what we're doing there The artificial intelligence act is the first attempt at a regulation for AI It has interesting aspects like trying to ban life facial recognition in public spaces But it also wants to increase transparency for users You should always know when you're talking to a machine or a bot And there should be a complementary dress mechanism something we're looking into it Very much is basically how to recognize and fix Biases within AI because we think that's important and the last big section we have Is e privacy, which is basically an attempt to revamp the use a cookie monster directive So every time you get this cookie banner that's supposed to disappear You're supposed to be able to preset your preferences in your browser and the e evidence Basically wants to enshrine in law how and when exactly the wikimedia foundation would have to share evidence with a prosecutor if demanded within a court procedure Back to Anna I'm not successful Yes, so so this is in very short what we what we do right now The these legal acts at various stages of of procedure So we're interacting with the european parliament. We also try to talk to the commission Hopefully also to the member states When when the time comes you can of course ask us to to repeat all this or to give you A more information from any part of this very short motorbike rundown through very complicated Topics, so this is how you can reach us. We also know that it's not cool anymore We now have a blog wikimedia.com where we try to write and bring you up to date About where we are with each of those important conversations So also this is the if you prefer to read than to speak to people This is also the way to get yourself updated. So please stay in touch I think we have some times left. No, so maybe we can also No, I think we run over by a minute and a half. I'm not even sure we're live anymore Yes, we are we still have I guess four minutes Can you imagine? Wow. Well any questions? No, but it was supposed to be a five minute presentation, right? Thanks So basically we can go to the Q&A and see whether there is something in the ether pad Or we can give wikimedia four minutes back Let me see the ether pad You don't see any questions yet Yeah me neither It's one thing I find weird that this conference is that as a speaker you're so detached from what's actually happening You get absolutely no feedback. Yes You have to follow maybe multiple channels. Well, fortunately, there's other bad We were so stressed that we will not be able to to do this that we actually got More time than Than needed, but please we still have a bit of time. So if there's anything that we can quickly clarify or repeat or add This is the trend. There is nothing on the ether pad But yeah, maybe we can say that the digital services act, which is basically the big The EU's big reform for this legislative period We now are in a very important parliamentary stage where all the amendment proposals by our all the politicians and parties have been tabled So we'll be looking at them. Um, like basically from september on And yeah, that's where we are You have a favorite amendment Anna on the dsa Uh, not yet Not yet Cool. Um, well, I I thought there are some uh, basically there is this eternal debate This week media and do week media projects want to be excluded and carve out of new rules concerning the internet Or do we want to be part of this and of course for us the much easiest easier step would be to say Hey, just this doesn't consider us. You really just want to regulate big for profits or, you know, people who mean bad Just leave us out Then again, um, if we want universal rules that are clear and we do want universal rules that are clear, um, uh, it doesn't work if if like every platform demands a carve out and Yeah, uh, so there is this discussion that we're having also internally. Maybe some food for talk Absolutely. Yeah, like terrorism terrorism on wikipedia should be just um is unacceptable as terrorism elsewhere Bluntly put Yes, that's true. That's why we don't always advocate for carve outs, but uh, sometimes they are useful Right, so I guess we can say bye. Bye