Digital rights 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.

“We must demand ethical, civil and criminal responsibility from big online platforms”

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 22, 2024November 22, 2024Childhood, Data Protection, Digital rights, European Commission, European Data Protection Board, European Parliament

November 20 is World Children’s Day. To mark the date, as in other years, the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT) held a discussion session in Madrid on the digital rights of minors. New in 2024 is that the event arose from an agreement between the European Association for Digital Transition and the public business institution Red.es, within the framework of the Digital Rights observation area and aimed at promoting the Digital Rights Charter.

The State Pact proposal to protect minors in the digital realm now has a website: pactomenoresdigitales.org

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 22, 2023November 22, 2023Childhood, Digital rights, State Pact Digital Minors

The proposal for a state pact to defend minors in the digital realm now has its own website. At www.pactomenoresdigitales.org, associations, foundations, regulators and citizens can find all the information about this civil society initiative, which is designed to provide a basis for consensus regarding the problems children and adolescents are facing in digital environments.

The Attorney General’s Office joins the State Pact proposal to protect children and adolescents in the digital realm

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 20, 2023November 22, 2023Attorney General’s Office, Childhood, Data Protection, Digital rights, Spanish Agency for Data Protection, State Pact Digital Minors

The proposal for a state pact to defend minors in the digital realm has new institutional support: the Juvenile Unit of the Attorney General’s Office (FGE in its Spanish abbreviation). The Juvenile Unit, led by chief prosecutor Eduardo Esteban, is joining this civil society initiative, the result of a consensus between six entities – the European Association for Digital Transition (EADT), promoter of the initiative, plus Save The Children, Fundación ANAR, iCMedia, Dale la Vuelta and UNICEF – and which already has support from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).

The challenge of mixing ethics with algorithms

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom September 30, 2022October 7, 2022Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Childhood, Digital rights

Development of the fourth industrial revolution, with the continual expansion of big data, artificial intelligence and algorithms, poses enormously important challenges that far transcend the world of technology. A new society is being shaped that requires a new social pact, based on an ethical commitment in the use of algorithms, with full respect for fundamental human rights and adaptation of these basic protections to the digital environment.

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.

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.

Digital rights of minors online

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 23, 2021November 23, 2021Childhood, Digital rights, United Nations

The Fundación ANAR (abbreviation for Ayuda a Niños y Adolescentes en Riesgo, a group that helps at-risk children and adolescents) has been working for more than half a century to ensure promotion and defence of the rights of children and adolescents within the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In recent years, our work has been transformed by the impact of technology, which has a transversal effect on all the problems found in childhood and adolescence.

World Children’s Day: the big tech business model is toxic for children and adolescents

European Association for Digital Transition Rights and freedom November 16, 2021November 17, 2021Childhood, Conference on the Future of Europe, Digital rights, European Commission

The digital environment should be friendly and safe for minors. However, reality shows that websites and social networks have become a risk for children and adolescents, who suffer online from harassment, violence, intimidation… and are exposed to all kinds of content, from inappropriate advertisements to extreme pornography. Meanwhile, their data is commercialised by the large platforms that make up the Internet, who take little action to control these serious problems.

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