Digital Services Act

Regulation European Union · 2022

The Digital Services Act governs how online intermediaries handle illegal content, advertising, recommendation and risk — layered by size, from every hosting provider up to the very large platforms that owe systemic-risk assessments and independent audit. Its API-visible footprint is unusual: for the largest platforms it does not merely permit a research and transparency interface, it obliges one, which makes it one of the few regimes in this catalog that manufactures an API rather than constraining one.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.