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    Study |

    Digital technologies in Europe

    This study highlights the resounding impact of digital technology and the IT sector on our environment. It deconstructs the notion that the digital world is light and dematerialised - “virtual”, “in the clouds” - and that it has no impact on the physical world.
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    Letter |

    MEPs send a letter to the European Commission on a European repair score

    According to an EU-wide poll, 74% of Europeans surveyed want environmental labels on electronic devices, while 90% of Europeans surveyed think that durability is important when choosing a new electronic device. One main barrier to consumers willing to purchase durable and reparable products was the lack of clear and comparable information…
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    Green Tech Film Festival

    As part of the Green Tech festival, four documentary films will be screened in the Kinograph cinema during two days. The documentaries will all revealed, in their own way, the dark side of the electronics industry
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    Event |

    LIVE WEBINAR: Current practices of biometric mass surveillance in the EU

    On 25 October, the Greens/EFA group will publish its report on the current practices of biometric mass surveillance in the EU. Join us to learn more about these practices, to what extent they are effective and the risks that they pose to fundamental rights! Register now!
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    Study |

    Biometric and behavioural mass surveillance in EU Member states

    The aim of this report is to establish a problematised overview of what we know about what is currently being done in Europe when it comes to remote biometric identification (RBI), and to assess in which cases we could potentially fall into forms of biometric mass surveillance.
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    Event |

    TECH YOUR PICK: new rules for online advertising

    Join us for the second in a new series of webinars on the Digital Services Act package. This second webinar will explore why SMEs, NGOs, academics, publishers and politicians in Europe and across the Atlantic have increasingly raised concerns regarding the harms to privacy, competition and online economy created by behavioural and microta…
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    Study |

    The future of online advertising

    Our digital world today is recording and tracking user’s every move, creating detailed profiles of users to show them relevant adverts targeted at their interests. It has not always been this way in the online world. This report explores concerns surrounding the practice of tracking-based advertising today and examines in detail the most …
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    Letter |

    An ecological approach to connectivity

    Ahead of the publication of the Path to the Digital Decade Policy Programme, Greens/EFA want to raise the Commission's attention on the importance for the digital transition to promote the green transition. It is essential that the European Commission adopt measures that will include an ecological approach to connectivity, make an efficie…
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    News |

    Plenary Flash 4-7 October 2021

    During the plenary session, the European Parliament will debate the role of development policy in response to biodiversity loss in developing countries, EU solutions to the rise of energy prices, artificial intelligence in criminal law and biometric surveillance, state of play of RRF recovery plans, EU-US relations, European health prepar…
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    Event |

    Coded Bias – On Discriminatory Algorithms and the Need to Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance Technologies

    The Greens/EFA campaign against biometric mass surveillance is organizing a screening of Shalini Kantayya’s award-winning documentary “Coded Bias” followed by a panel debate on algorithmic biases and how they are being addressed in the Artificial Intelligence Regulation.