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We need children to have a healthier digital life: The role of Foundations

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom September 28, 2023November 22, 2023Childhood, Data Protection, Privacy, State Pact Digital Minors

Social awareness on the risks minors face in the digital world is growing stronger. After years of taking uncritical positions, public opinion is increasingly aware that access by children and adolescents to the Internet, especially with mobile phones, involves characteristics that must be taken into account.

The case of minors on the Internet and social networks: a presence in the July 23 electoral campaign

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom July 3, 2023November 22, 2023Childhood, Data Protection, Privacy, State Pact Digital Minors

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Spanish society is increasingly more aware that improper use of the Internet and social networks by minors is a growing problem that must be faced resolutely. This is why the issue has entered the electoral campaign debate for the upcoming elections on July 23rd.

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.

What do children and adolescents need on the Internet? Tune into the conference ‘The survival of minors in a data-driven world’

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 7, 2022December 6, 2022Childhood, Data Protection, Privacy, Spanish Agency for Data Protection

Being a child or teenager in the digital age is a very different experience from what previous generations had. From a very early age, minors are exposed to the fact that, through the Internet and social networks, their personal data is commercialized, and this use of private information can have consequences for the future that we barely perceive. And, like adults, they also suffer from some of the most harmful effects of the Internet, such as false information or the creation of information bubbles. In this, the big tech companies do not discriminate: the algorithm knows virtually nothing about being of legal age.

What if the Google search engine unjustly harms a person’s reputation? Keys to ‘the right to be forgotten’

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom July 12, 2022July 12, 2022Data Protection, Digital rights, Google, Spain

The Spanish Constitutional Court has just endorsed, in a judgment on June 27, 2022, what is known as the ‘right to be forgotten’, declaring previous decisions in regard to this by the Supreme Court and the National High Court to be unconstitutional. Thus, the Constitutional Court has positioned itself in support of arguments made by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), which in turn protected a Spanish businessperson affected by negative comments published in the United States and accessible via the Google search engine.

The EU and regulation of Artificial Intelligence

European Association for Digital Transition Democratic quality April 29, 2022May 30, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, European Commission

It’s been a year since the European Commission presented its Proposal for regulation of Artificial Intelligence, an important step toward providing the entire EU with a clear and unified legal framework on the use of this technology.

“Europeans should feel proud we live on the continent that most respects privacy”

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom February 28, 2022March 7, 2022Data Protection, Interviews, Privacy, Spanish Agency for Data Protection

It’s moving day at the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD in its Spanish abbreviation), as Mar España’s mandate as director, having been appointed in July 2015, is about to end. For this reason, Ana Caballero, Vice President of the European Association for Digital Transition, interviewed España, a top public official who has also worked in the Ombudsman’s Office and the Women’s Institute.

Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection: an impossible relationship?

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom February 11, 2022March 7, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, European Data Protection Supervisor, Interviews

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main challenges facing humanity in the near term. Nevertheless, the large geopolitical blocs are facing the situation from different perspectives.

Without confidence, the Digital Transition in Health will be a failure

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom January 17, 2022January 17, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, health, Spain

In December 2021, the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System approved its Digital Health Strategy (In Spanish, ESD-SNS), an ambitious roadmap for the Spanish health sector’s digital transition. The document appeared just weeks after the European Commission’s latest Study on eHealth, Interoperability of Health Data and Artificial Intelligence for Health and Care in the European Union.