Digital Denmark: Waking Up to Big Tech’s Risks & More Trending News – UP Jobs News

Broad political agreement exists on the need to support Denmark’s digital transformation. In the country’s wireless spectrum auctions, Danish telecommunications companies agreed to roll out a high-speed 5G mobile network to 75% of the Danish population by 2025. The telecom companies have invested around €1.3 billion.

But problems with planning regulation for around 150 masts for rural areas mean that the target has been missed. According to the Danish newspaper Berlingske, a political majority in the Danish Parliament wants to ease permitting.

In August 2021, the Danish government launched proposals to regulate social media. A national action plan would educate young people on the responsible use of social media.  Platforms would be required to delete illegal content within 24 hours after specific notification and to publish transparency reports. On the antitrust front, the government wants the Danish Competition Authority to block tech giants from acting as gatekeepers favoring their own services.

The government recognizes the need for support to strengthen critical technologies, adopting a risk-based approach to their regulation. It believes these should be identified via transparent analysis with clearly identified criteria. For artificial intelligence (AI), the upcoming EU rules should take account of the risks while not putting a brake on innovation.

Denmark’s Digital Partnership issued 46 recommendations. These include proposals to improve the digital capacity of Danish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Among the most interesting ideas was to establish public robot libraries. They would lend the robots to individuals and businesses. Funding for digital education and training should be increased. Public data should be made available under simple and clear rules. ^{Privacy protections should be bolstered, with increased funding of the Danish privacy regulator.}

In response to these proposals, the government published its own digital strategy in May 2022 which in general endorses a large part of the Digital Partnership’s recommendations. The strategy includes 61 initiatives to increase digital security and competencies. About €300 million of public funding is earmarked between 2022 and 2026. A new Digital Advisory Board led by the former CEO of Microsoft Denmark, Nana Bule, has been established to monitor implementation. Danish business organizations have welcomed the strategy.

As part of the EU’s COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Facility, another €300 million will be spent on digital projects over the next four years to extend rural broadband and digitize health care services. ^{New investments will help bring public services online and promote cybersecurity and AI. Importantly, public-private partnerships that promote data sharing will be encouraged.}

Although Denmark is a cybersecurity leader in some international rankings, cyberattacks have hit several Danish companies, including Maersk, ISS, and Vestas. ^{A report from the Danish Parliament’s Committee of the Public Accounts criticized five specific public agencies for failing to meet standards for cybersecurity.}

Denmark usually is a bastion of freedom of expression. It opposes Facebook’s ban on nudity, which Danes feel is overly restrictive. A Danish politician who tried to post a photo of Copenhagen’s iconic Little Mermaid statue was told it could not be published because of nudity rules. ^{Facebook subsequently relented and clarified its rules on nudity, allowing photos of paintings, sculptures, and other art that depict nude figures.}

At the same time, Denmark insists on increasing the responsibility of social media companies for the content they host. In January 2022, the Danish broadcasting company DR profiled the mother of a young Danish woman murdered by Islamist extremists. She had failed to get Facebook to stop the sharing of the murder. Facebook insisted that it was trying to block the video, but Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Simon Kollerup, responsible for regulating social media remained unconvinced — and said the failure underlined the need for strict rules requiring platforms to take down illegal content.

Denmark’s Digital Partnership recommendations endorsed by the government represent a solid strategy to tackle the main challenges for a successful digital transition. The open question is whether the government will unlock the needed resources and how the strategy will be implemented.

Denmark should continue to fight potential protectionism and insist that Europe build a true Digital Single Market. On issues such as digital taxation, Denmark wants to find a transatlantic agreement. If this is impossible, however, it will side with European solutions.

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