Internet & Online Safety - Finland

The EU DSA applies in full to all intermediary services offered in the EU (including Finland) since 17 February 2024, covering illegal-content handling, complaint mechanisms, transparency of advertising and recommender systems, and protection of minors.

Finland enacted the Act on the Supervision of Online Intermediary Services (18/2024, as amended), in force from 17 February 2024, which establishes supervisory powers (inspections, information requests) and penalty payments up to 6% of global annual turnover for violations.

The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom) is the national Digital Services Coordinator and principal DSA supervisor; the Consumer Ombudsman and Data Protection Ombudsman supervise specific obligations such as advertising and protection of minors.

Under the DSA's conditional liability exemptions, platforms must act on clearly illegal content, operate notice-and-action and complaint-handling procedures, and provide statements of reasons; users may seek compensation and lodge complaints with supervisory authorities.

The DSA requires platforms accessible to minors to ensure a high level of privacy, safety and security; the Data Protection Ombudsman supervises minor protection in Finland. Age verification builds on the EU's privacy-preserving age-verification solution (feature-ready 15 April 2026), with no Finnish-specific mandatory age-gating statute for general platforms yet.

The regime is operational: in 2024 (the DSA's first year) Finnish authorities received nearly 80 complaints, of which 72 went to Traficom, indicating active supervision rather than a paper regime.