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The legal risks on the Internet are complex given that the application of the law has been adapted to technological evolutions and the use of the Web. If the law applies on the Web as in everyday life, digital spaces generate new cases that require necessary adaptations. In particular, the risks concern the violation of intellectual property, personal data, image rights or even identity theft. These infringements are punishable by law and can be subject to fines and prison sentences.

The environmental risks linked to digital uses are less related to the current consumption of energy for operating, storing and recharging electronic devices than they are to the pollution generated during the manufacturing of the equipment: the lithium in the batteries, the tantalum in the electronic cards, the indium in the screens and other components are produced far from the assembly sites and require a lot of energy to assemble them. These are also scarce resources that are being depleted at an increasing rate. The fact that this equipment is not recyclable also has a major ecological impact. The speed of technological advances and the obsolescence of digital equipment lead to the production of more and more waste which is not treated in a responsible way.