Author: Julia Weber
Pardon Assange: 45 MEPs, Stella Assange & journalist federations sign open letter to US President Biden
Today, four Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) and Stella Assange address US President Joe Biden in an open letter co-signed by 41 EU lawmakers, …
Breyer: Kaili‘s role in pushing for CSAM scanner proposal needs investigating
Following the arrest of the Greek Social Democrat MEP Eva Kaili on serious corruption charges, the EU Parliament today voted to revoke her Vice-Presidency with one vote against and two abstentions. …
Council position on political advertising opens the door to election manipulation
Today, the EU Council adopted a position on the proposed Regulation on transparency and targeting of political advertising; the text had already been published beforehand. Member of …
Chat control: Mass surveillance proposal will let children down
EU Interior Ministers today discussed the proposal to automatically search all private correspondence for suspected content (so-called „chat control“). They insisted in pursuing an approach of mass …
AI Act: EU governments open door for biometric mass surveillance in public spaces
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Freedom, democracy and transparency
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Today the ministers of the 27 Member States agreed on a general approach (i.e. a common position) on the future AI Act – the EU law that will regulate artificial intelligence …
Political advertising: EU lawmakers to reign in on surveillance-based targeting of political advertising
Today, the European Parliament’s LIBE committee voted to restrict the use of personal data to target online political advertisements to data explicitly provided for this purpose by citizens with their consent, …
Political advertising: EU Parliament disagrees on personalised targeting of political messages
Kick-off for EU database of public domain works and digital access to scientific works
With yesterday’s budget vote, the EU Parliament approved the funding of two pilot projects in the field of free knowledge initiated by the Pirate Party’s MEP Patrick Breyer in cooperation with …
Cybersecurity: EU bans anonymous Internet sites
The EU Parliament today approved the directive to increase cyber security (“NIS 2”) by a large majority. According to it, the registration of internet domain names shall …