🗓️ Mark your calendars for 27 September! Join us at the next of our #ConsumerDebates to explore the exciting potential of heat pumps in Europe's climate action plans. Let's make the consumer switch to green heating a reality. https://www.beuc.eu/events/consumerdebate-consumer-switch-heat-pumps-how-turn-eus-plans-action
#ConsumerDebate | The consumer switch to heat pumps: how to turn the EU’s plans into action

Millions of consumers in Europe today rely on fossil fuels like gas to heat their homes. For Europe to meet its climate targets, this will have to change – meaning both a cultural and technological shift. Heat pumps have a big role to play in the transition, but consumers can face obstacles, ranging from up-front costs to the difficulty in finding an accredited installer. With the European Commission working on a Heat Pump Action Plan, BEUC is taking this opportunity to highlight how this plan can address consumers’ concerns.

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Join us and uncover the findings of our heat pump 'mystery shopping' project at the next instalment of our #ConsumerDebates on 27 September. After our study presentation, our panelists will address obstacles consumers encounter and brainstorm strategies to boost the adoption of eco-friendly heating solutions. https://www.beuc.eu/events/consumerdebate-consumer-switch-heat-pumps-how-turn-eus-plans-action
#ConsumerDebate | The consumer switch to heat pumps: how to turn the EU’s plans into action

Millions of consumers in Europe today rely on fossil fuels like gas to heat their homes. For Europe to meet its climate targets, this will have to change – meaning both a cultural and technological shift. Heat pumps have a big role to play in the transition, but consumers can face obstacles, ranging from up-front costs to the difficulty in finding an accredited installer. With the European Commission working on a Heat Pump Action Plan, BEUC is taking this opportunity to highlight how this plan can address consumers’ concerns.

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OK @beuc's #ConsumerDebates event on #EHDS is over.

tl;dr:

🤩 @TheProgressives MEP #PetarVitanov seems to have patients' right to #privacy front and centre. Kudos!

😖 The @EU_Commission seems to neither understand #bigdata nor their own #dataprotection law #GDPR. Sad!

💸 The #insurance #industry wants to milk us for more profits. Surprise!

🤔 And #BEUC defends #patients' rights but for some reason less so when it comes to the secondary use of #medical records by 3rd parties.

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Of course the #insurance lobbyist gratefully jumps on that falsehood, throwing all the #innovation and medical advancement journey BS that the insurance industry allegedly provides at us. #EHDS #ConsumerDebates

It's mind-boggling how the @EU_Commission rep just says "don't worry, anonymised #medical records are not personal data" while ignoring a decade of #computer #science and re-identification #research.

Example: https://vimeo.com/91204492

#anonymisation #privacy #EHDS #ConsumerDebates

ODI Friday Lunchtime Lecture: Why anonymity fails - Professor Ross Anderson

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Oh my, #InsuranceEurope lobbyist pulls out the "data will cure #HIV" argument. And because data collection allegedly leads to lower insurance prices, it's really about #inclusion not #discrimination. 🤦

Sure.

#ConsumerDebates #EHDS

Great push-back from @beuc's #MoniqueGoyens against the insurance lobby: the whole idea of #insurance is the #mutualisation of #risk, so abusing medical records for individual premiums and prices breaks the entire system.

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MEP #PetarVitanov points again at vulnerable folks 💪 Women in #Poland seeking abortion (abroad) need the protection provided by a #consent regime.

Abuse risks are all over the Commission's #EHDS proposal.

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Lobby group #InsuranceEurope wants our medical records so they can be "competitive in the market", otherwise "higher prices", sorry folks.

Some people really have no shame.

#ConsumerDebates #EHDS #privacy #dataprotection

The #EHDS's entire secondary use regime for #medical records is so shaky that the European doctors' association #CPME calls to completely exempt doctors from it. 🤐

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