Renew Europe MEPs demand EU privacy certificate for digital products in their letter to European Commissioners Thierry Breton and Didier Reynders.

In large parts of the world, social-distancing measures were put in place to combat the coronavirus outbreak. Since home-office is the new normal, video conferencing apps are widely used to keep in touch with colleagues and help many organisations to provide much needed business continuity.

We know most of those apps and online services are not safe in terms of privacy, yet we use them, as they offer good services. Together with countless consumer organisations, the Renew Europe Group expects that any digital product or service offered on the European market should be safe and respecting our privacy. That’s why Renew Europe MEPs decided to write to the European Commission to examine the use of unsafe applications as regards data protection and privacy, particularly during this corona crisis, and ask the EU executive to establish an EU privacy certificate for trust in the Digital Single Market.

Read the letter here.