Consumers Archives - Dialogues on European Digital Transition

The EADT launches a campaign, “Do not accept the unacceptable”, our new campaign promoting good practices in the digital environment

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom March 17, 2025March 17, 2025Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection, Digital rights, Privacy

The European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), an organisation affiliated with the Digital Rights Observatory, launched a spot last Saturday, March 15th, coinciding with World Consumer Rights Day, under the premise of “not accepting the unacceptable”. According to Ricardo Rodríguez Contreras, president of the EADT, the aim of the campaign is “to raise awareness among the public about their rights as digital consumers and to promote good practices”. Aimed at users of digital environments, the spot seeks to raise awareness among citizens about how to act and navigate safely in the digital environment, with special attention on young people as peak digital users.

Children, adolescents and problems with digital tools: the responsibility of the large internet platforms

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom May 27, 2024May 27, 2024Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection

The vice president of the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), Ana Caballero, recently took part in some seminars held by the Andalusian Parliament. Organised by the Audiovisual Council of Andalusia, the session ‘The consequences of being the first digital natives’ analysed from various perspectives the risks involved in the overexposure of minors to screentime.

The Spanish government wants to prevent minors from accessing porn: they’re right, but we need to go much further

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom January 17, 2024January 17, 2024Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection, Privacy, State Pact Digital Minors

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that the government wants to approve a law to prevent minors from accessing pornographic content online. It is, to date, the most important step forward in a political debate that has been growing ever louder in recent months, and in which the European Association for Digital Transition has been involved from the start.

Vulnerable minors on the Internet: Foundations get activated and look to Congress

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom October 10, 2023November 22, 2023Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection, Privacy, State Pact Digital Minors

This past June, six civil society organisations – the European Association for Digital Transition, EADT, promoter of the initiative, plus UNICEF, Save the Children, Dale una vuelta, iCMedia and the Fundación Anar – presented, with institutional support from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), a proposal for a state pact to protect minors in the digital world.

EADT leads proposal for a state pact to protect minors from risks on the Internet and social networks

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom June 26, 2023November 22, 2023Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection, Privacy, State Pact Digital Minors

Six civil society entities – the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), promoter of the initiative, joined by Save the Children, the ANAR Foundation, iCMedia, Dale Una Vuelta and UNICEF – with institutional support from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) have presented a proposal for a state pact to protect minors on the Internet and social networks. The initiative forms part of the start of Spain’s presidency of the European Union and before the upcoming general elections on July 23^rd, which will result in a new legislature.

The EADT launches the campaign ‘A un clic de ayudarles’ (‘Just a click away from helping them’) to raise awareness about the risks children and adolescents face online

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom May 24, 2023May 24, 2023Childhood, Consumers, Data Protection, Privacy, Spanish Agency for Data Protection

Today the European Association for Digital Transition is launching the campaign ‘A un click de ayudarles‘ (‘Just a click away from helping them’) in collaboration with the Atresmedia Foundation, the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) and the ANAR Foundation (helping children and teenagers at risk). The aim of this initiative is to encourage parents to take a more active role in the online activity of minors, alerting them to its risks – such as cyberbullying, isolation or self-esteem problems – and also to the characteristics of certain business models on the platforms and social networks, which are based on profiling the minor’s data for Its subsequent commercialisation via advertising.

Consumer rights in the digital age: the mistake of letting your guard down

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom March 23, 2022March 23, 2022Consumers, Digital rights, Interviews

Consumer policies don’t usually get much attention from the media or in political debates, yet they affect realities that are the backbone of daily life for most citizens. From the moment we get up to the time we go to bed, we establish consumer relations, sometimes almost unconsciously, in which we have a series of rights.

Internet and minors: Europe must react

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom December 10, 2021December 15, 2021Childhood, Consumers, Digital rights

In the digital economy we are all, several times a day, a product. Because if the product is free, the product is us. We’re all more or less aware of this reality, which years ago went unnoticed. But we are still acting as if we were blindfolded. An Internet search engine, our favourite social network, the blue dot we follow on the map when we visit another city… we think everything is free, but it isn’t. Paying with data is paying, and with our data large technology platforms, from the United States or China, are building empires that now border on monopolies.

The dangers of big tech’s entry in the financial sector

European Association for Digital Transition Economic future December 9, 2021December 9, 2021Asufin, Consumers, Facebook, fintech

Could the big tech companies launch an assault on the financial sector? For several years now, there have been clear indications that the group known as the GAFAs are interested in this business, but they still haven’t gone after it.

Apple, privacy, and control of data

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Apple, Consumers, Data Protection, Google, Privacy

Without the free rein they had a few years ago in terms of control over data, the big tech companies have long been working on the concept of ‘privacy’, which has also become a marketing tool. Apple has taken this dispute very seriously, and in early June introduced a new concept on privacy for the clients of its cloud service, iCloud. It’s called Private Relay.

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