Hi Giovanni,
Thanks for your interesting question.
# Giovanni Biscuolo [2017-12-05 12:28 +0100]:
please are there any updates about the 2014-2019 policy goal "Consumer rights and device sovereignty" and in general about all 2014-2019 policy goals https://fsfe.org/activities/policy/eu/policy-goals.html ?
Here are just a few pointer for first reads, please feel free to ask if you have further questions or want to have more info on specific issues:
* Regarding device sovereignty we are constantly working on the Radio Lockdown Directive [1] which is endangering the users' freedom to load software on their radio-capable devices. There will be an update on fsfe.org with the latest proceedings in a few days. * In Germany, we had a huge success with enabling consumers to use their own routers and modems to access the internet which wasn't legally guaranteed before [2]. * DRM ("Digital Restriction Management") still is a huge issue for us although there is no actual movement on the EU level in this regard. * Within the Commission's Digital Single Market strategy there's lots of issues which require our attention, and Polina Malaja, our Policy Analyst, is doing a great job defending users' rights. Our comments on DSM [3] from 2015 might give you good pointers to further readings * Mostly all our policy work aims to protect (Free Software) users' interests. Here's the latest news from this working area: [4]
By the way, with our recently launched "Public Money, Public Code" [5] campaign we've also drawn some attention by politicians in the whole EU. With freeing publicly financed software we hope to secure citizens' personal data on a large scale.
Best, Max
[1] https://fsfe.org/activities/radiodirective/ [2] https://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160725-01.html [3] https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20151104-01.html [4] https://fsfe.org/tags/tagged-policy.html [5] https://publiccode.eu/