#Qatargate: New Ethics Body is toothless
Today, the European Commission presented its plans for an inter-institutional Ethics Body in response to the “Qatargate” corruption scandal in the European Parliament to increase transparency in …
Author: Julia Weber
AI Act: Lead committees to ban facial surveillance in Europe
Today, the two lead committees of the European Parliament voted to fully ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe’s public spaces, namely by using the controversial facial recognition technology. The decision was …
Leaked EU Council legal analysis: EU chat control plans for indiscriminately searching private messages doomed to failure
Unauthorised livestreams: Access blocking harms fans and users
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Today, the European Commission recommended measures to fight “livestream piracy”. The text also advocates “blocking injunctions” targeted at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), including “dynamic” blocking injunctions that would allow industry …
Patrick Breyer on Chat Control: To ensure the safety of children online, we need a new approach!
Chat Control lead negotiator proposes to add “voluntary detection orders” and metadata scanning
The European Parliament’s lead LIBE Committee yesterday circulated the draft report by conservative Rapporteur Javier Zarzalejos on the proposal to fight child sexual abuse material (CSAR), also …
Germany insists in major revision of the EU Chat Control proposal to protect fundamental rights
Germany will not support the EU Commission’s „Chat Control“ proposal of a regulation on Child Sexual Abuse unless major changes are implemented, a leaked position paper reveals:
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EU Parliament’s Research Service confirms: Chat control violates fundamental rights
Today, the European Parliament’s Research Service (EPRS) presented a new study on the legality of the proposed Child Sexual Abuse / Chat Control Regulation to the European Parliament’s lead Committee on …
Expect biometric mass surveillance in Paris in 2024: French Parliament approves automated monitoring of public spaces for „suspicious behaviour“
European Health Data Space amendments: Let‘s keep patients in full control of their health files!
The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament today tabled amendments to the proposed European Health Data Space (EHDS) aiming to keep patients in full control of their health files. Access to …
