The Digital Services Coordinator Database: Tracking DSA investigations into Big Tech

EDRi releases the Digital Services Coordinators Database

EDRi is excited to officially release its Digital Services Coordinators Database. The database is a semi-public resource collecting all Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcement actions taken by Digital Services Coordinators (DSCs) in all 27 EU member states as well the EU Commission. DSCs are the national authorities tasked to enforce most provisions of the DSA.

The DSC Database is designed to be a useful source of up-to-date information for civil society, researchers and journalists. It collects and makes available background information about each DSC, including who they are, how to reach them, their internal structures, legal basis in national law, as well as any activity reports they may have published. Internal sections contain additional information for trusted civil society organisations to enable shared learning and facilitate coordination across communities.

Current landscape of investigations launched

The Database shows that in the months following the entry into force of the DSA, enforcement authorities have launched a surprisingly large number of cases against virtually all very large online platforms and search engines (with the notable exception of Wikimedia). The EU Commission alone has launched almost 50 cases, some of which have already been concluded (against LinkedIn based on an EDRi complaint, and against Tiktok based on Commission action), while others do not seem to have progressed at all after the Commission sent an official request for information to the platform provider.

It seems clear that there are numerous areas in which online platforms continue to infringe the DSA. While EDRi is glad to see all the compliance issues that regulators are looking into, we are also convinced that the most important outcome is not the number of requests for information but non-compliance investigations that are actually concluded, ideally with dissuasive monetary fines and changes in platform behaviour.

On the DSC level of EU member states, it is not surprising that most investigations have been launched by the Irish Media Commission (Coimisiún na Meán), as Ireland is host to most of Big Tech’s European operations. Germany has also received a notable number of complaints already.

The digital rights community looks forward to seeing the outcome of these member state-driven non-compliance investigations, and to cooperating with enforcement authorities to ensure that people are able to exercise their rights and freedoms online.

The DSC Database is a project of European Digital Rights and run in collaboration with partners from civil society. All publicly accessible information in this database is or is based on previously public data. EDRi does not guarantee the correctness of any of the information published in the Database. If you find any errors or information that should not or should be published here, please contact us.