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strengthening the democratic framework for a digital transformation that benefits everyone and improves the lives of all people living in the EU;

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taking necessary measures to ensure that the values of the EU and the rights of individuals as recognised by EU law are respected online as well as offline;

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fostering and ensuring responsible and diligent action by all actors, public and private, in the digital environment;

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actively promoting this vision of the digital transformation, also in our international relations.

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making sure that the design, development, deployment and use of technological solutions respect fundamental rights, enable their exercise and promote solidarity and inclusion;

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a digital transformation that leaves nobody behind. It should benefit everyone, achieve gender balance, and include notably elderly people, people living in rural areas, persons with disabilities, or marginalised, vulnerable or disenfranchised people and those who act on their behalf. It should also promote cultural and linguistic diversity;

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developing adequate frameworks so that all market actors benefiting from the digital transformation assume their social responsibilities and make a fair and proportionate contribution to the costs of public goods, services and infrastructures, for the benefit of all people living in the EU.

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ensuring access to high-quality connectivity, with available Internet access, for everyone wherever in the EU, including for those with low income;

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protecting and promoting a neutral and open Internet where content, services, and applications are not unjustifiably blocked or degraded.

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promoting high-quality digital education and training, including with a view to bridging the digital gender divide;

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supporting efforts that allow all learners and teachers to acquire and share the necessary digital skills and competences, including media literacy, and critical thinking, to take an active part in the economy, society, and in democratic processes;

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promoting and supporting efforts to equip all education and training institutions with digital connectivity, infrastructure and tools;

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giving everyone the possibility to adjust to changes brought by the digitalisation of work through up-skilling and re-skilling.

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ensuring that everyone is able to disconnect and benefit from safeguards for work-life balance in a digital environment;

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ensuring that, in the working environment, digital tools do not put workers’ physical and mental health at risk in any way;

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ensuring respect for workers’ fundamental rights in the digital environment, including their right to privacy and the right to associate, right of collective bargaining and action, as well as protection against unlawful and unjustified surveillance;

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ensuring that the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace is transparent and follows a risk-based approach and that corresponding prevention measures are taken to maintain a safe and healthy working environment;

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ensuring in particular that human oversight is guaranteed in important decisions affecting workers, and that workers are generally informed that they are interacting with artificial intelligence systems.

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ensuring that people living in the EU are offered the possibility to use an accessible, voluntary, secure and trusted digital identity that gives access to a broad range of online services;

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ensuring wide accessibility and re-use of public sector information;

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facilitating and supporting seamless, secure and interoperable access across the EU to digital public services designed to meet people’s needs in an effective manner, including and in particular digital health and care services, notably access to electronic health records.

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promoting human-centric, trustworthy and ethical artificial intelligence systems throughout their development, deployment and use, in line with EU values;

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ensuring an adequate level of transparency about the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence, and that people are empowered to use them and are informed when interacting with them;

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ensuring that algorithmic systems are based on adequate datasets to avoid discrimination and enable human supervision of all outcomes affecting people's safety and fundamental rights;

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ensuring that technologies such as artificial intelligence are not used to pre-empt people’s choices, for example regarding health, education, employment, and their private life;

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providing for safeguards and taking appropriate action, including by promoting trustworthy standards, to ensure that artificial intelligence and digital systems are, at all times, safe and used in full respect for fundamental rights;

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taking measures to ensure that research in artificial intelligence respects the highest ethical standards and relevant EU law.

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ensuring a safe and secure digital environment based on fair competition, where fundamental rights are protected, users rights and consumer protection in the Digital Single Market are ensured, and responsibilities of platforms, especially large players and gatekeepers, are well defined;

b)

promoting interoperability, transparency, open technologies and standards as a way to further strengthen trust in technology as well as consumers’ ability to make autonomous and informed choices.

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continuing safeguarding all fundamental rights online, notably the freedom of expression and information, including media freedom and pluralism;

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supporting the development and best use of digital technologies to stimulate people's engagement and democratic participation;

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taking proportionate measures to tackle all forms of illegal content, in full respect for fundamental rights, including the right to freedom of expression and information, and without establishing any general monitoring obligations or censorship;

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creating a digital environment where people are protected against disinformation and information manipulation and other forms of harmful content, including harassment and gender-based violence;

e)

supporting effective access to digital content reflecting the cultural and linguistic diversity in the EU;

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empowering individuals to make freely given, specific choices and limiting the exploitation of vulnerabilities and biases, namely through targeted advertising.

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taking further measures to promote the traceability of products and make sure only products which are safe and compliant with EU legislation are offered on the Digital Single Market;

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protecting the interests of people, businesses and public institutions against cybersecurity risks and cybercrime including data breaches and identity theft or manipulation. This includes cybersecurity requirements for connected products placed on the single market;

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countering and holding accountable those that seek to undermine, within the EU, security online and the integrity of the digital environment or that promote violence and hatred through digital means.

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ensuring that everyone has effective control of their personal and non-personal data in line with EU data protection rules and relevant EU law;

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ensuring effectively the possibility for individuals to easily move their personal and non-personal data between different digital services in line with portability rights;

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effectively protecting communications from unauthorised third party access;

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prohibiting unlawful identification as well as unlawful retention of activity records.

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providing opportunities to all children and young people to acquire the necessary skills and competences, including media literacy and critical thinking, in order to navigate and engage in the digital environment actively, safely and to make informed choices;

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promoting positive experiences for children and young people in an age-appropriate and safe digital environment;

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protecting all children and young people against harmful and illegal content, exploitation, manipulation and abuse online, and preventing the digital space from being used to commit or facilitate crimes;

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protecting all children and young people against illegal tracking, profiling and targeting, in particular for commercial purposes;

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involving children and young people in the development of digital policies that concern them.

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supporting the development and use of sustainable digital technologies that have minimal negative environmental and social impact;

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incentivising sustainable consumer choices and business models, and fostering sustainable and responsible corporate behaviour throughout global value chains of digital products and services, including with a view to combating forced labour;

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promoting the development, deployment and active use of innovative digital technologies with a positive impact on the environment and climate, in order to accelerate the green transition;

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promoting sustainability standards and labels for digital products and services.