39 Amendments of Damian BOESELAGER related to 2020/2217(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 22 a (new)
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 21 October 2020 entitled ‘Open source software strategy 2020 – 2023’
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas all uses of personal data should be consistent with the General Data Protection Regulation and the e-Privacy Directive; and their proper enforcement should be available especially on purpose limitation and data minimisation aspects; at all times, protection of privacy should remain a priority;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication entitled ‘A European strategy for data’; believes that it is a prerequisite for the viability of European industries and nascent AI, and a vital step towards a rights-based and democratic data society, which will bringlead to better services, sustainable growth and jobs;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis highlights the role ofthe role and value of high-quality real-time data;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the Union’s aim must be an EU-governed, human-centric, data- drivenobjective must be EU-wide governance for a data economy in a human-centric society built on trust and values of privacy, transparency, accessibility and fundamental rights;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights the need to prevent gender and cultural biases being inadvertently included in algorithms, AI systems and applications and calls for diverse teams of developers and engineers working alongside key societal actors;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Underlines the importance of achieving a high level of overall digital literacy, including training on how to collect, handle, share and analyse data in compliance with GDPR and other relevant requirements; supports the promotion of educational curricula providing universal basic knowledge in statistics and econometrics as well as promoting public-awareness activities concerning the societal, legal, and ethical impact of data-driven societies, including AI;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that a well-built data society benefits all, empowers workers instead ofrather than lowering their working conditions, and does not lead to inequality or digital gapcan bridge the existing inequality and digital gaps without creating new ones; highlights in this context the specific needs of vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, elderly people, people with fewer opportunities, refugees and others;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the increasing volume, development, storage and processing of industrial and public data in the Union is a source of growthcommercial opportunity and innovation that should be tapped; believes that this growth can be enhanced via a level playing field and strong multi-player fair market economyopportunity can only be secured by ensuring a level playing field, fair market access for actors of all sizes and competitive markets;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that in line with the GDPR principle of purpose limitation the sharing of data shall be limited to non- personal, e.g. commercial or industrial data, or securely and effectively anonymised personal data, including in mixed data sets;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the Union’s data strategy must supportcontribute to sustainability, and be an enabler for the Green Deal and Union’s climate targets;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses that, in light of the growing carbon footprint of the collection, storage and sharing of data, the energy and resource efficiency of data infrastructure must be dramatically improved to achieve climate neutrality of the digital sector as soon as possible;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the creation of a data governance framework for common European data spaces, covering interoperability, sharing, access and portability of data, to enhance the flow and reuse of industrial and publicnon-personal or securely anonymised public sector data;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists that the data governance model be built on a decentralised data operating environment, taking advantages of an open data policy and collaboration opportunities in regional clusters of SMEs, research institutions, public administrations and civil society;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the creation of a Commission-led body that would set common Union-wide guidelinprinciples on data governance; calls for citizens, civil society and businesses to be adequately represented in the governance of data spaces;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges the Commission to build interoperable sectoral data spaces that follow common guidelinprinciples to avoid creating silos and preventing cross-sectoral innovations;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Encourages the Commission to use data spaces to enhance trust, create common standards and, including for data anonymisation and pseudonymisation to ensure high protection of data, to build well-formed application programming interfaces (APIs), and to consider using pre-agreed, clearly specified and time- bound sandboxes to test innovations;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the Commission’s plans for intermediator labelling/certification for creation of interoperable data ecosystems and markets; urges the Commission to work together with European and international standard setting organisations to identify and close gaps in data standardisation;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that personal and industrial data are not always separable; urges the Commission to define guidance onprinciples and practices infor the utilisation of mixed data sets in industrial environments while guaranteeing privacy rules for personal data; calls on the Commission to consider creating a horizontal and cross-cutting personal data space alongside other data spaces to address the challenge of mixed data sets and empower citizens via, for example, trustworthy intermediators such as MyData operators, which store data with the consent of the owners and provide adequate granularity of permissions; insists that the data spaces created as result of Union policies should include safeguards and ban profiling and advertisement uses;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to examine actors’ rights to access data they have been involved in generating and clarify rights of those actors to participate in the economic value created by applications trained using data they have been involved in generating;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for more and betterimproved secondary uses of anonymised personal data, especially in G2B/G2G exchanges, to boost innovation, research and services, while ensuring that such secondary uses do not lead to de- anonymization of personal data;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Calls on the Commission to assess which datasets are essential for the ecological transition, inter alia in the energy sector to ensure the transition to renewable energies, the transportation sector and the carbon footprint of public and private entities; calls on the Commission to consider extending the scope of the high value datasets defined in Directive (EU) 2019/1024 on Open Data to private actors;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20 b. Calls for the Commission to analyse the benefits and drawbacks of making the de-anonymisation of personal data a punishable offence;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses the role of the public sector in fostering an innovative and competitive data economy; stresses in this context the need to avoid service provider or technological lock-ins for publicly data collected data; calls forion processes and calls for all Union public procurement processes and funding programmes to include open data access and, mandatory interoperability requirementsand portability requirements, as well as to promote the use of open-source software and hardware; calls in this context, upon the Commission to introduce a ‘European interoperability pledge’ which national, regional and local public authorities shall be invited to join;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Highlights the need to protect and promote access for SMEs and in particular start-ups to public procurement processes in the context of the digitalisation of public administrations to foster the creation of a dynamic and competitive European digital sector; in this context calls for allocating at least 10% of digital Union public procurement contracts to SMEs and start-ups;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to strengthen the Union’s technological sovereignty, to work on technologies that facilitate data sharing and analytics, and to to facilitate the development of digital technologies in the Union by investing in capacity building and high-impact projects to promote research, innovation and deployment of digital technologies;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Recalls that the success of the Union’s data and AI strategies depends on the wider ICT ecosystem, algorithmic transparency, closing the digital gap, developing the IoT, fibre, 5G, 6Gcommunication technologies, quantum, and edge computing, block chain and high-performance computingdistributed ledger technologies and high-performance computing in an energy efficient manner; calls on the Commission to promote the development of specialised and niche cloud services and applications, including industrial IoT and AI, as well as visual processing technology;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to use the tools at its disposal, including in-depth market reviews, to promotect competitive Union markets to support the development of European cloud offerings, e.g. Gaia-xin the areas of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS); urges the Commission to counteract abuses of market power by dominant actors in oligopolistic market structures in the European cloud markets, which could inhibit competition or consumer choice;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Suggest that the Commission takes advantage of the review of horizontal and vertical competition guidelines to introduce new tools to counter excessive market concentration, inherent to data markets, including, inter alia ongoing monitoring for at-risk-markets and, where necessary, ex-ante regulation;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the Commission to develop a ‘cloud rule book’fast- track the development of a ‘cloud rule book’, that establishes principles for the provision of cloud services in the Common Market and that will inter alia oblige service providers to reveal where data is stored and, ensure users have sovereignty over their data, and allow users to seamlessly migrate their data via standardised interfaces to other service providers, where comparable cloud services exist;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Emphasises the importance of trust and cybersecurity for a stable data economy; calls for the support of further development of technology for the secure sharing of data, e.g. via secure multi-party computing and encryption technology; urges the Commission to present solutions and standards suited to market players of all sizes, encouraging the use of transparency;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. Points out that the most efficient way of reducing bias in data based systems is by ensuring that the maximum of non-personal data is available to train them and notes that public domain or freely licensed data are often used by AI and machine learning developers when selecting training data, both for ease of access and to avoid potential infringement liability exposure; highlights in this context the necessity to remove unnecessary legal barriers to data access and to facilitate cross-border uses;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the Commission to promote software engineering, ICT talent attraction, employment of women in tech and data literacy skills for all; underlines the need to promote women-led companies and employment of women in the digital sector and calls for measures to follow up on career development of women in STEM;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for public and private funding for SMEs to fullysupport the digital transition and capitalise on the data economy’s potential by strengthening regional digitalisation strategies;
Amendment 340 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Calls on social partners to explore the potential of digitalisation, data and AI to increase productivity, improve well- being of the workforce and society as a whole, and encourages companies to invest in upskilling;
Amendment 349 #
32. Believes that the status quo on global rules governing the use of data areis inadequate; calls on the Commission to work with like-minded third countries to agree onencourage them to become a party to Convention 108+ for the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, which is the only international binding treaty to date; calls on the Commission to abide by its promise to propose new international standards to govern the use of new technologies, such as AI;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. CRecalls fothat the CJEU has been clear theat free flow of data between the Union and third countries when privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests are met; calls on the Commission to negotiate new rules for the global digital economy, includingshould only happen when an essentially equivalent protection to that provided in the EU is afforded; urges to fully preserve privacy, security and other legitimate public policy interests in trade negotiations; welcomes the EU horizontal proposal on cross- border data flows, data localisation and the protection of privacy and data protection and calls on the Commission to abide by this position as a red line to avoid a race to the bottom in the prohibitection of unjustified data localisation requirementsthe fundamental rights to privacy and data protection;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33 a. Calls upon the European Commission to maintain its 2018 horizontal position on cross border data flows, privacy and data protection, and not to agree to trade rules that could limit its ability to regulate, for example on AI or cybersecurity;