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<title>EU Declaration of Digital Rights: Free Software included by European Parliament</title> |
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<h1>EU Declaration of Digital Rights: Free Software included by European Parliament</h1> |
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<p>Early this year, the Commission proposed a draft for an EU |
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Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles that aims to guide the |
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digital transformation in the EU. Now the European Parliament has |
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agreed on a text and Free Software makes part of it. |
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<p><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/declaration-european-digital-rights-and-principles">The |
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European Commission has presented its proposal</a> for the EU |
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Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles which will serve as |
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reference point in the future and as a common vision of our digital |
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rights in Europe. After receiving the contributions to the text from |
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different committees and finding a compromise, the European Parliament |
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has now agreed on a common text. The FSFE welcomes that the text by |
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the European Parliament now includes Free Software as a way to ensure |
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transparency in the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence. It |
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further highlights the importance of promoting "trustworthy |
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standards and, wherever possible, open source standards".</p> |
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<blockquote><em>"The EU Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles |
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will be an important guideline to our fast pace digitalisation. |
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Therefore, we welcome the agreed text from the European Parliament for |
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acknowledging the role that Free Software has on trustworthy |
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technologies, specially with regard to AI. Now we expect the |
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ongoing-discussed AI regulation to be consistent with these |
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principles" says Lina Ceballos, FSFE Project Manager. |
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<p> Furthermore, in Chapter VI of the agreed text named |
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"Sustainability", there is the commitment to support the "development |
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of sustainable by design digital technologies, that are durable, |
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repairable, and interoperable, both on a hardware and a software level, |
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and banning practices leading to premature obsolescence". |
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<blockquote><em>"The European Parliament's call for the development of |
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sustainable technologies, that are durable, repairable, and |
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interoperable is in fact a call for the development of Free Software." |
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as Erik Albers, FSFE Digital Sustainability Programme Manager, |
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emphasizes. From here on we expect future legislations aligned to |
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these principles and making use of the crucial role that Free Software |
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plays for an eco-friendly design and the sustainability of our |
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hardware" </em></blockquote> |
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<p>The FSFE has published an <a |
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href="/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.html">open |
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letter</a> co-signed by meanwhile more than 45 organisations and |
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companies from the environmental, economic, and technological sectors. |
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In the letter, the broad alliance asks EU legislators for the right to |
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install any software on any device, including full access to hardware. |
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These rights support reusability and longevity of our devices.</p> |
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<p>The FSFE keeps monitoring the ongoing inter-institutional dialogue |
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trying to make sure that the Parliament proposal remains. So that the |
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final text of Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles can become |
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a milestone for software freedom.</p> |
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