The EU supported trials of the use of “artificial intelligence” at its borders by testing a “video lie detector” on travellers. On 15 March 2019, MEP and civil liberties activist Dr …
Yesterday afternoon, the new German government coalition of SPD, FDP and the Greens presented its coalition agreement to the public. MEP, civil rights activist and lawyer Dr Patrick Breyer of the …
The rules on political advertising proposed today by the Commission fail to stop the manipulation of elections by way of personalised targeting, criticises Patrick Breyer, the LIBE Committee‘s rapporteur for the …
Today, Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), presented his opinion in the legal dispute between SpaceNet AG and the Federal Republic of Germany on the …
Today, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament published a study on Current Practices of Biometric Mass Surveillance in the European Union (e.g. facial surveillance or behavioural analysis in public …
Today, the European Parliament will vote in first reading on conferring new powers to the EU police agency, Europol. Despite a reprimand from the European Data Protection Supervisor last year, …
The EU is currently drafting legislation to increase cyber security (revised NIS Directive, in short “NIS 2”). According to this directive, the registration of internet domain names will in future …
Artificial Intelligence
Members of the European Parliament have adopted a report on the use of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Law. The file includes a paragraph that speaks out in favour …
Brussels/Strasbourg, 05/10/2021 – Pirate MEPs agreed that yesterday’s outage of Facebook and other networks could have been avoided. The solution would have been interoperability: interconnection of individual networks managed by different …
