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OUR SYSTEMS SHOULD PRIORITISE SAFETY, PARTICIPATION, AND COMMUNITY\r\nCARE..................................................................................................................................................................7\r\n5. TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE BY, FOR, AND OF THE PEOPLE................................................8\r\nEDRi policy recommendations.................................................................................................................10\r\nReferences and acknowledgment.........................................................................................................17\r\nThis vision does not necessarily mean endorsement by all individual EDRi members.\r\nEDRi members remain committed to coming together with their own unique sets of\r\nexpertise and priorities.\r\n\r\nVision\r\nImagining a brighter future can be challenging amid prevailing pessimism, but the\r\nfuture is not written. We, as individuals, as collectives, communities, and societies,\r\nhave the agency, and the responsibility, to shape it. EDRi’s mission since its inception\r\nhas been to protect and uphold civil and human rights in the field of information and\r\ncommunication technology. As technology has weaved itself into the fabric of our\r\nlives, our societies, EDRi’s mission has never been more relevant. Actualising the\r\nEDRi vision in 2023 and beyond means envisioning a future where technology serves\r\nhumanity, democracy, and the planet. Where our greatest challenges, from climate\r\ncollapse, to the power of Big Tech, to threats against democracy and fundamental\r\nrights, are addressed holistically, and through an intersectional lens incorporating\r\njustice, equity, sustainability, and decolonising principles.\r\nThe following visions present a snapshot of what can and should be possible - a\r\nnorth star - to guide us in the work we collectively do to protect and extend human\r\nrights, strengthen democracy, reimagine our societal systems, and care for our\r\nplanet.\r\nWe are eager to share these visions and welcome your thoughts, imaginative\r\ninsights, explorations, and expansions on these concepts. In the future we are work-\r\ning towards the following.\r\n\r\n1. OUR TECHNOLOGY\r\nSHOULD EMPOWER\r\nPEOPLE TO FLOURISH\r\nAND THRIVE.\r\n• We prioritise the values of dignity, agency, autonomy, justice, safety,\r\ncreativity, well-being and individual and collective freedoms.\r\n• We maintain freedom of thought, and reject the pervasive tracking\r\nand technological and exploitation of our bodies and minds.\r\n• Our labour practices, supported by technology, empower workers and\r\ncommunities, eliminate job instability, and ensure a high quality of\r\nlife for everyone.\r\n• Free from the grip of mass surveillance, people have the freedom to\r\nexpress themselves, to communicate safely and securely, to resist\r\noppression, and to assemble and protest.\r\n• We have space and appetite to create, iterate, share ideas, and col-\r\nlaborate.\r\n• Communities, particularly marginalised groups, are protected and\r\nsupported to seek justice for historical and ongoing harms.\r\n\r\n2. OUR TECHNOLOGY\r\nSHOULD PRIORITISE\r\nPLANET CARE.\r\n• Caring for the planet is synonymous with caring for ourselves, our\r\ncommunities, and our societies. We acknowledge that technology\r\nproduction is interconnected with living beings, and nature, and\r\nensure our economies and societies respect the planet's limits.\r\n• We incorporate the values of the circular economy, where goods,\r\nincluding technology, are built to last, and we maintain our rights to\r\nrepair, tinker, and build.\r\n• Industries of all types no longer support, facilitate, or profit from\r\nhuman and natural resource exploitation and extraction. We work\r\ntoward sufficiency and sustainability frameworks that prioritise de-\r\ngrowth, meeting our needs within planetary boundaries, and repara-\r\ntions for the Global South, in the global north.\r\n• We collectively respect and protect land and territories of Indigenous\r\nCommunities and in the periphery that hold cultural, ecological, or\r\nhistorical significance.\r\n\r\n3. OUR TECHNOLOGY\r\nSHOULD MAKE\r\nDECISION-MAKING JUST\r\nAND ACCOUNTABLE.\r\n• Our decision - making is guided by principles of justice, equity,\r\npower-sharing, and is inclusive, collaborative, and accountable. Tech-\r\nnology facilitates rather than hampers these principles.\r\n• Public and private actors’ power is checked through meaningful\r\ntransparency and accountability, where equity, inclusion, and justice\r\nprevail.\r\n• Public services and infrastructure build resilience to adapt to uncer-\r\ntainty and change, and are protected against takeover by private\r\nactors.\r\n• People affected by technology are meaningfully engaged in digital\r\ndecision-making, and have efficient and effective mechanisms for\r\nredress if harms occur.\r\n• Decision-making is localised, representative and accountable to\r\nthose who are impacted by such decisions.\r\n• Technology does not replace human decision - making, especially in\r\nthe context of the digital welfare state and the criminal justice sys-\r\ntem. Public services deployment of digital tools are limited,\r\nmeaningfully transparent, open to public scrutiny, and contestable.\r\n\r\n4. OUR SYSTEMS SHOULD\r\nPRIORITISE SAFETY,\r\nPARTICIPATION, AND\r\nCOMMUNITY CARE.\r\n• Technology is used as a tool to enhance and support people, com-\r\nmunities and public services, not to oppress, control and manipulate.\r\n• Digital technologies and the internet are designed and used to foster\r\ncommunity and enable universal access to knowledge, culture, and\r\nspaces for organising and community care.\r\n• The social web and other collaborative spaces are liberated from the\r\ngrasp of global advertising firms and centralised platforms are\r\nreplaced by open protocols that enable decentralised and diverse\r\nforms of collaboration and communication.\r\n• The rights to a private life, to safety, and dignity online and off, to\r\ncommunicate, organise, protest, and assemble are affirmed as\r\nfoundational pillars which enable free and democratic societies to\r\nflourish.\r\n• Populations are resilient against manipulation, including disinforma-\r\ntion, as democratic participation and civic engagement, and the\r\nrights to freedom of expression and association are affirmed.\r\n\r\n5. TECHNOLOGY SHOULD\r\nBE BY, FOR, AND OF THE\r\nPEOPLE.\r\n• States invest significant resources to support public infrastructures\r\nand public technologies, which are accountable and are governed by\r\nclear frameworks of democratic accountability.\r\n• Corporate technology providers are prohibited from dealing, or profit-\r\ning in any way, from the sale and deployment of surveillance\r\ntechnology. They are held accountable under democratically\r\napproved laws and regulations and their power over people’s lives is\r\nlimited.\r\n• People are freely able to access the open and free internet, sharing\r\nand contributing to the world's information, knowledge, as the digital\r\ncommons are established.\r\n• Technology is conceived of, built, iterated, and deployed in service of\r\nall, including people with disabilities, in multiple languages. Those\r\nwho are most affected are meaningfully engaged throughout.\r\n• Digitalisation efforts, including public services, do not impose upon\r\nor result in the exclusion of people, groups, or communities.\r\n• Incentives and freedom to build, tinker, contribute to, and deploy\r\ntechnology, including software, lie with communities and prioritise\r\nwell-being, accessibility, and care.\r\n\r\nEDRi turned 20 in 2023. Our large network of organisations and activists has consist-\r\nently put human rights at the centre of national, European, and global digital laws,\r\npolicies, and debates. In an increasingly digital society, EDRi's mission to reclaim\r\npower from private and state actors' surveillance and control is more relevant than\r\never.\r\nThe above vision for technology and society is informed by the key learnings from our\r\n20+ years of activity, and the collective ideation and transformation work co-led with\r\nDigital Freedom Fund (DFF) to decolonise the digital rights field in Europe.\r\nThe following are some reflections on how EDRi sees its role in advancing these vis-\r\nions:\r\n• We cannot do this alone. These visions are part of a broader effort, comprising\r\nof multiple movements, of which one group, organisation, or single entity could\r\nnot possibly take on alone. We stand in solidarity with, collaborate with, and\r\ncontinue to learn from broader movements, activists, change makers, organ-\r\nisations, and public institutions, to advance truly systemic change for people,\r\nplanet, and democracy.\r\n• We need more than policy change. While EDRi focuses on European legislative\r\nand policy changes, we are conscious of the need to incorporate methods that\r\ngo beyond EU advocacy, including technology development, litigation, research,\r\nworking with, and learning from communities who resist and re-imagine.\r\n• We must centre those most impacted. To meaningfully work towards digital\r\nfutures that enable us all to thrive, we must centre the needs and asks of those\r\nwhose mere existence is currently threatened by the digital expansion of our\r\nexisting systems of governance and power. As EU policies have global relev-\r\nance, the perspective of populations in Global South/Majority Countries and\r\nthe lived experience of groups historically marginalised should be reflected in\r\ndigital activism, policy, and strategy.\r\n• We need to shift and share power. To accomplish the above, we must be aware\r\nof, and work to change, the power dynamics within and around the field. EDRi\r\nwill elevate, support, and amplify the voices of those advancing human rights,\r\nsocial and climate justice.\r\n\r\nEDRi policy recommendations\r\nEDRi proposes the following policy priorities for the EU and its Member States to\r\nadvance the visions outlined above. We look forward to working in collaboration with\r\npartners and the EU institutions to advance these priorities in the next mandate and\r\nbeyond.\r\n\r\n1. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE TO FLOURISH AND1. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD EMPOWER PEOPLE TO FLOURISH AND\r\nTHRIVE.THRIVE.\r\n• Empower workers to address abusive work practices including by:\r\n◦ Regulating algorithmic management systems and other uses of AI at work,\r\n◦ Ensuring that the enforcement of the Platforms Directive leads to the\r\nrecognition of labour relationships in platform systems, and\r\n◦ Supporting content moderators, Big Tech workers' organising, resisting\r\nand/or blowing the whistle.\r\n• Protect people from all forms of real-time and post- remote biometric identi-\r\nfication, biometrics categorisation and emotion recognition, whether through\r\nthe completion of the AI Act and/or a new specific mechanism.\r\n• Urgently address the structural and procedural enforcement issues that pre-\r\nvent the General Data Protection Regulation from reaching its full potential by:\r\n◦ Harmonising national procedures for the application of the rules,\r\n◦ Increasing the resources, true political independence, qualification and effi-\r\nciency of data protection authorities and the European Data Protection\r\nBoard.\r\n◦ Develop state of the art tools and practices for consistent enforcement\r\nbetween DPAs.\r\n2. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD PRIORITISE PLANET CARE.2. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD PRIORITISE PLANET CARE.\r\n• Ensure an ambitious and comprehensive EU Green Deal that:\r\n◦ Makes the right to repair a reality;\r\n◦ Prohibits premature and planned obsolescence of technology products;\r\n◦ Removes technical impediments to access owned products, such as “Digital\r\n\r\nRights Management” software, in the absence of security or safety con-\r\ncerns.\r\n◦ Ensures the reuse and recyclability of technological products, including\r\nmaximum feasible backwards compatibility with older equipment, operating\r\nsystems (OS), and other software.\r\n• Adopt measures to reduce the EU’s demand and consumption of raw materials\r\nto stop environmental and human harms, to reduce data accumulation that\r\nleads to curtailing freedom of expression and to discrimination. These meas-\r\nures can include:\r\n◦ Proposing a comprehensive reform of the online advertising ecosystem;\r\n◦ Deliver clear and ambitious standards to ensure the energy efficiency and\r\nsustainability of data centres in the EU.\r\n◦ Reduce the mass collection and processing of data through the compre-\r\nhensive implementation of data protection laws, including the GDPR, in\r\nparticular the principles of data minimisation.\r\n3. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD MAKE DECISION-MAKING JUST AND3. OUR TECHNOLOGY SHOULD MAKE DECISION-MAKING JUST AND\r\nACCOUNTABLE.ACCOUNTABLE.\r\n• Take meaningful steps to make decision-making at the EU level more access-\r\nible, transparent, and inclusive, in particular:\r\n◦ Advance a more equitable “Brussels effect” by ensuring the inclusion and\r\nmeaningful participation of Global South actors and people specifically\r\nharmed or affected by technology and tech-related harms in EU policy mak-\r\ning processes;\r\n◦ Strengthening Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 regulating access to docu-\r\nments to ensure that there is a mandatory and broader access to document\r\nrequests including in digital format and by using online platforms;\r\n◦ Reform trialogues to ensure the timely publication of all minutes and key\r\ndocuments, direct access to co-legislators in the form of regular consulta-\r\ntions with key stakeholders including civil society. Register and publish all\r\n12\r\nmeetings with lobbyists;\r\n• A committent by the incoming Commission mandate to prioritise measures\r\nwhich increase the diversity, equity, and inclusion of Europeans, including in\r\nrepresentation, legislative and policy processes through a public list of object-\r\nives and principles.\r\n• Empower people affected by technologies and automated decision making\r\nsystems (including AI) with a framework of accountability, transparency,\r\naccessibility and redress. This should include:\r\n◦ Oversight and transparency mechanisms when technologies are deployed\r\nto produce substantive decisions and outcomes in areas that impact\r\npeoples’ fundamental rights.\r\n◦ Public transparency registers, public impact assessment frameworks,\r\nmeaningful engagement with civil society and impacted communities, as\r\nwell as other accountable technology practices, for instance in the develop-\r\nment and design of technologies, must be included in legal frameworks and\r\nencouraged as methods of meaningful processes of participation in the\r\nadoption of new technologies;\r\n◦ Legal frameworks by which people affected by advanced technologies in\r\nsensitive areas are informed, have access to information, and are enabled to\r\nchallenge and seek redress. Public interest organisations must be facilit-\r\nated to aid this process.\r\n4. OUR SYSTEMS SHOULD PRIORITISE SAFETY, PARTICIPATION, AND4. OUR SYSTEMS SHOULD PRIORITISE SAFETY, PARTICIPATION, AND\r\nCOMMUNITY CARE.COMMUNITY CARE.\r\n• Establish a range of clear, comprehensive legislative measures that protect\r\nthe fundamental rights of journalists, human rights defenders and all residents\r\nwhich uphold freedom of expression, assembly, association and freedom of\r\nthought by introducing:\r\n◦ A legally binding proposal to ban the development, trade and deployment of\r\ndigital spyware and the hoarding and use of security vulnerabilities.\r\n\r\n◦ A clear and unequivocal banning of the production and use of harmful and\r\ndiscriminatory surveillance technology. Any technologies that may violate\r\nfundamental rights and perpetuate violence against people must be subject\r\nto holistic legislative frameworks, including in the EU AI Act, and national\r\nlaws.\r\n• Urgently review and limit the further expansion of European surveillance data-\r\nbases, including the Entry/Exit System, the European Travel Information and\r\nAuthorisation System and the European Criminal records information System\r\nfor Third-Country Nationals, and the systematic exchange of data about\r\nmigrants between law enforcement and migration/border officials.\r\n• Build on work in the previous mandate to limit Big Tech power and establish\r\naccountability, transparency, and competition in the digital environment\r\nthrough:\r\n◦ Effective and comprehensive enforcement of the DSA by providing suffi-\r\ncient financial resources, technical expertise, and political support to Digital\r\nServices Coordinators and the European Commission’s enforcement units.\r\n◦ Ensuring that enforcement actions for DSA follow due process in order to\r\nprevent arbitrary public or corporate threats against platform providers or\r\npeople.\r\n◦ Ensure that the development and execution of the risk assessments and\r\nrelated DSA compliance mechanisms are effective, meaningful, compre-\r\nhensive, and based on fundamental rights risk assessments developed by\r\ncivil society and human rights bodies.\r\n◦ Work in collaboration with civil society and independent experts and aca-\r\ndemics to participate in the monitoring, implementation and enforcement of\r\nthe DSA. Notably, institutionalising engagement with civil society through\r\nthe creation of a permanent advisory body (see Article 19 report).\r\n◦ Propose dedicated legislative and non legislative measures to limit pervas-\r\nive online tracking, and comprehensively reform online advertising.\r\n\r\n5. TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE BY, FOR, AND OF THE PEOPLE.5. TECHNOLOGY SHOULD BE BY, FOR, AND OF THE PEOPLE.\r\n• Establish a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund that pools existing\r\nfunding initiatives under one umbrella and supports, among others, the cre-\r\nation of platform cooperatives, local internet infrastructure such as\r\ncommunity-owned broadband projects, and tech community-based alternat-\r\nives.\r\n• Use the Digital Markets Act (DMA) to its full potential to restore competition in\r\nthe digital environment, by:\r\n◦ Cooperating with the Free Software community, also known as the Open\r\nSource community, and civil society to identify infringements by gatekeep-\r\ners and to support the flourishing of community based alternatives to the\r\nsurveillance and ads-based tech industry;\r\n◦ Exploring further steps to the DMA including social media interoperability\r\nbased on open standards with state-of-the-art security features.\r\n◦ Rigorously implement, monitor, and enforce the provisions of the DMA, not-\r\nably the obligations and prohibitions for gatekeepers to prevent them from\r\nabusing their market position.\r\n• Ensure that the EU’s Connectivity and infrastructure plans protect access to\r\nthe internet and net neutrality, with an unequivocal affirmation that:\r\n◦ The internet should be recognised as a universal public service to promote\r\nfast speed connection through Europe and beyond; and\r\n◦ Every point on the network can connect to any other point on the network,\r\nwithout discrimination on the basis of origin, destination or type of data.\r\n• Ensure horizontal and mainstreamed accessibility requirements for all AI and\r\ntechnology systems for people with disabilities.\r\n• Ensure that the implementation of Digital Decade digitalisation targets and the\r\nDigital Euro plans:\r\n◦ Create a public system alternative that does not lead to privacy violations or\r\nfurther social exclusion, in particular by ensuring that these digital systems\r\nare not necessary for tax or secure payment purposes.\r\n\r\n◦ Digitalisation efforts should be inclusive, and not be imposed upon or result\r\nin the exclusion of people, groups, or communities;\r\n◦ Digitalisation efforts should not be used to unjustly or arbitrarily expand\r\nsurveillance measures.\r\n\r\nReferences and acknowledgment\r\nThe following reports, studies, books and articles have been source of inspiration or direct quotation:\r\n• Network Strategy 2020-2024, European Digital Rights.\r\n• Multi-Annual strategy, European Digital Rights.\r\n• Decolonising digital rights, European Digital Rights.\r\n• Reports by EDRi: De-biasing AI report, Border tech report , Biometric surveillance state of play report.\r\n• Report on GDPR enforcement, Access Now.\r\n• Behind the figures: Understanding the environmental impacts of ICT and taking action, by Bordage, F., de\r\nMontenay, L., Benqassem, S., Delmas- Orgelet, J., Domon, F., Prunel, D., Vateau, C. et Lees Perasso, E., 2021.\r\n• European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund White Paper, by Paul Keller.\r\n• Civil Society Statement on Democratic Digital Infrastructure.\r\n• Feminist Tech Principles, Superrr Lab.\r\n• Accounting for the environmental impact of data processses: And the history of environmental\r\nimpact taxation in the US and Europe, Gemma Galdón Clavell, Eticas Foundation.\r\n• Targeted online: An industry broken by design and by default (European Digital Rights)\r\n• European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Group on Ethics in Sci-\r\nence and New Technologies, Biller-Andorno, N., Céu Patrão Neves, M., Laukyte, M.et al., Opinion on\r\ndemocracy in the digital age, Publications Office of the European Union, 2023.\r\n• Computer Science for Future -- Sustainability and Climate Protection in the Computer Science Courses of\r\nthe HAW Hamburg, Elina Eickstädt, Martin Becke, Martin Kohler, Julia Padberg\r\n• Big Tech Lobbying - Google, Amazon & friends and their hidden influence, Corporate Europe Observatory,\r\n2020.\r\n• 2023 Doomsday Clock Statement, bulletin of atomic scientists.\r\n• The entrepreneurial state – Debunking public VS Private sectors myths, Mariana Mazzucato.\r\n• Less is more – How degrowth will save the world, Jason Hickel.\r\n• Shaping Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society, Jankowski, P., Höfner, A., Hoffmann, M. L., Rohde, F.,\r\nRehak, R. & Graf, J. (Eds.).\r\n• Digitalization for Sustainability (D4S), 2022: Digital Reset. Redirecting Technologies.\r\n• Digital Reset. Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation, Berlin: TU Berlin.\r\n• Bigger, more, better, faster: The ecological paradox of digital economies, by Paz Peña, 2020.\r\n• The Climate Crisis is a Digital Rights Crisis: Exploring the Civil-Society Framing of Two Intersecting\r\nDisasters.\r\n• Data Feminism.\r\n• APC Feminist Principles of the Internet.\r\n• Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Kate Crawford.\r\n• Feminist approaches to tech policy, SUPERRR Labs.\r\n• Human rights and technical standard-setting processes for new and emerging digital technologies, Report\r\nof the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 9 June 2023, (A/HRC/53/42).\r\n17\r\nThe following people have been consulted in the preparation of these visions:\r\n• Participants of the EDRi 20th anniversary Open House and EDRi 2023 General Assembly workshops.\r\n• Anna Fielder, Alyna Smith (PICUM), Thomas Lohninger (epicenter.works), Paul Keller and Zuzana Warso from\r\nOpen Future, Oyidiya Oji and Kim Smouter (ENAR), Tomaso Falchetta (Privacy International), Javier Ruiz,\r\nGuillermo Beltrà (OSF), Raegan MacDonald (Aspiration), Bogdan Manolea (ApTi), Katrin Fritsch (Green Web\r\nFoundation, epicenter.works), Christoph Schmon (EFF), Fieke Janssen, Maryant Fernández Pérez (BEUC),Ralf\r\nBendrath, Michele Failla (Wikimedia Europe), Rejo Zenger (Bits of Freedom), Khaleesi (Chaos Computer\r\nClub), Ralf Bendrath (EP advisor to the Green Group) Alejandro Moledo (European Disabilities Forum), Mark\r\nDempsey (Article 19), Tom Fredrik Blenning (Electronic Frontier Norway), Kahina Rabahi, (EAPN), Mher\r\nHakobyan (Amnesty International)Vanja Skoric and Karolina IwanWska (ECNL), Elisa Lindinger and Corinna\r\nVetter (SUPERRR Lab), Rohit Malpani, Lauren Manson (European Youth Forum), EDRi Policy Team (Sebastián\r\nBecker Castellaro, Chloé Berthélémy, Sarah Chander, Ella Jakubowska, Diego Naranjo, Jan Penfrat), Andreea\r\nBelu, Claire Fernandez, Ioana Barbulescu, and anonymous contributors.\r\n18"},"recipientGroups":[{"recipients":{"parliament":[{"code":"RG_BT_MEMBERS_OF_PARLIAMENT","de":"Mitglieder des Bundestages","en":"Members of parliament"}],"federalGovernment":[]},"sendingDate":"2024-05-03"}]}]},"contracts":{"contractsPresent":false,"contractsCount":0,"contracts":[]},"codeOfConduct":{"ownCodeOfConduct":false}}