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This is the Indicator from Planet Money, I'm Darian Woods.

And I'm Waylon Wong.

The European Union has been on a role when it comes to regulating tech companies, running

laps around the US.

The EU has crafted three major laws in the last few years, all with the aim of checking

the power of online platforms.

And the latest piece of legislation is called the Digital Services Act, or the DSA.

It is a massive set of regulations tackling everything from targeted advertising to recommendation

algorithms to content moderation.

To down the show, we dive into the Digital Services Act and look at how the EU's tough

stance on big tech could reshape the online experience, not just for people in Europe,

but in the US and around the world.

The EU has really taken the lead when it comes to regulating major online platforms.

And one recurring theme of these recent laws is this idea of getting more visibility into

what tech companies know about their customers.

Gabriella Zanfiafortuna is the vice president of Global Privacy at a think tank called

the Future of Privacy Forum.

And in a previous job, she lived in Brussels and she worked on the first major law that

kicked off this current wave of tech legislation in the EU.

Everybody cared about these things, and you could actually tell that by the very long working

hours that people were putting into that whole process.

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