PEReN presents its Activity Report 2022

The Center of expertise for digital platform regulation (PEReN) has submitted its activity report for 2022 to its supervisory ministers (Economy, Culture and Digital).

PEReN presents its Activity Report 2022

In accordance with Article 5 of its reference decree, Center of expertise for digital platform regulation (PEReN) has submitted its activity report covering the year 2022 to its supervisory ministers (Economy, Culture and Digital).

For PEReN, this second full year of operation was a year of consolidation and recognition of its place as a technical referent within the ecosystem of digital platform and AI regulation. Identified more and more spontaneously by the players, the adequacy of its expertise and productions to the needs of State services in the field are the subject of consensus. In fact, 2022 was also marked by the implementation of the Center’s new intervention framework: extension of its services to independent authorities and power of experimentation and academic research.

Mobilizing a team of experts with cutting-edge profiles, PEReN today stands out for its ability to “do” as well as analyze. It carries out all its projects using its own resources, with a view to capitalizing on expertise within public authorities and sovereignty.

The 2022 Activity Report highlights PEReN’s main areas of contribution:

  • Support for the preparation and negotiation of texts: support for the French version of the DMA and DSA, exploration of technical modalities for online age control, contribution to the future regulation aimed at combating child sexual abuse (CSAM), contribution to work on AI regulation…
  • Development of regulatory and assessment tools: analysis of seller visibility systems on marketplaces, measurement of the value of user consent in online advertising, study on fake listening from online music platforms, exploration of algorithms for recommending press content not based on profiling…
  • Implementation of shared resources: automatic interface analysis tool, automated language processing API, data partitioning API (clustering), tool for identifying data collected from mobile applications…
  • Contributing to the state of the art and disseminating knowledge: promoting academic expertise on data anonymization and algorithm auditability, deciphering how Google’s web page display optimization technology works, conferences and hackathons…