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Green digitalisation
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A Digital and Green Transition: Will Artificial Intelligence foster or hamper the Green New Deal?

Two of the European Commission’s key priorities for the upcoming years are Europe fit for the Digital Age and the Green Deal. In our event the Greens/EFA will explore how we can ensure the two goals promote each other and which actions we need to ensure the digital transition and Green Deal are not mutually exclusive.
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Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance In Public Spaces!

This is not a sci-fi movie or the latest episode of a dystopian tv-show! Throughout the European Union, governments are already experimenting with highly intrusive systems of facial recognition and other biometric technologies. These technologies pose alarming risks for fundamental rights, fuelling mass surveillance and racial discrim…
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Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
Surveillance Cameras/CC0 Milosz Klinowski
Opinion |

Ban Biometric Mass Surveillance

Governments are experimenting with highly intrusive facial recognition systems and other biometric mass surveillance in public spaces in the EU. We think they have alarming consequences for fundamental rights and want them to be banned.
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Event |

Face surveillance vs Facial Authentication: What is it and why should biometric mass surveillance be banned in the public space?

Often when people think of facial recognition, they think about unlocking their phones with their face. Facial authentication is used to verify that someone is who they say they are, when for example gaining secured access to a building or traveling through a passport gate. This is a one-to-one comp...
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©hassan-anayi
European Parliament Strasbourg
News |

Greens/EFA debriefing of the plenary session

Greens/EFA priorities for the plenary week included the Council Conclusions on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), Rule of Law and Climate Law, the presentation of the Digital Service Act (DSA), the Drinking Water Directive, transitional provisions for Agricultural Funds, the European Year of Rail 2021, a new Strategy for European …
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Data server
Press release |

Commission proposal first step to end Wild West of Internet giants

We welcome the European Commission's move to end the Wild West style Internet giants and to make online platforms accountable for how they spread content and when they remove content from users.
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Social media icons on phone screen / CC0 dole777
Social media icons on phone screen / CC0 dole777
Opinion |

Fighting for your rights online

Did you know that the EU's internet rules haven't changed in 20 years? The reform of the rules through the "Digital Services Package” has the potential to be either a threat to fundamental rights or a major improvement.
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EP Strasbourg
News |

Plenary Flash 14-18 December 2020

During this week plenary session, the European Parliament will debate and/or vote on digital services act, the conclusions of the European Council meeting, water legislation, new strategy for European SMEs, European Year of Rail, Council configuration on Gender Equality, ...
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Monitor showing Java programming/ CC0 Ilya Pavlov
Monitor showing Java programming/ CC0 Ilya Pavlov
Opinion |

Terrorist Content Online Regulation

Patrick Breyer
Opinion by Patrick Breyer
Preventing the recruitment of terrorists is an important objective. We want incitement to violence, glorification of terrorism as well as bomb-building instructions published by terrorist organizations to be removed from the Internet. But the means to achieve this goal, as proposed by the Commission and supported by Council, are problemat…
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Event |

The Risks of Discrimination of Biometric Mass Surveillance

Throughout the European Union, governments are experimenting with highly intrusive systems of facial recognition and other biometric mass surveillance in public spaces. At the same time, there has been a global uproar against the usage of these technologies due to their alarming consequences for fun...