Europeans for Safe Connections (alliance of EU countries)

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" are against this initiative as a whole. Personal data is digital gold. The bigger the dataset - the higher risk of the attack. - 500 million Facebook user records were stolen in 2021 - 700 million LinkedIn users records were stolen in 2020-2021 - German insurance company Haftpflichtkasse was attacked in July 2021 Processing of personal medical data in a big centralised database is…

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" welcome this initiative and we would like to add some important improvements. Article 10 is about obligations of manufacturers. Among the obligations there is also to publish INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS TO THE USER further defined in Annex II - that is the list of information that the product with digital elements shall be accompanied by.

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" welcome this initiative because in our european citizens' initiative "Stop (((5G))) – Stay connected but protected" we also write that according to the Aarhus Convention EU citizens have a right to ensure that the most up-to-date scientific data is taken into account when the EU adopts policies for the protection of the environment.

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" welcome this initiative because many drivers are not informed that their connected cars store or record so much data quietly, often inadvertently including very sensitive personal information. A lot of personal data is copied to the car's infotainment console as soon as any smartphone is interconnected to the car.

A data network is set being up to collect economic, environmental and social data at farm level. We "Europeans for Safe Connections" strongly suggest that it be explicitly stated that data on the environment should include data on telecommunication masts near farms. In addition, all information about all wireless technologies used on or near farms should be included.

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" welcome this update of the Directive 2008/99/EC. Page 6/69: We are happy that the Commission has identified new offence categories currently not covered by the Directive. However, we would like to add three more: • operating RF EMF in nature reservations • operating RF EMF in nature generally • launching, operating and destroying satellites above the territory of EU Page 30/69: We…

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" are very concerned with this initiative. The principle of minimization of objects in space must be instituted, limiting deployments to essential uses which will benefit humanity and not commerce and race. Satellites are resource demanding, ozone depleting, environment polluting.

We "Europeans for Safe Connections" welcome this activity. EU consumer law should address these issues: Issue 1: Consumers should be educated how to use modern wireless products safely (e.g. turn off the wireless functions at night). It is necessary that people are fully informed and given an option (e.g.