AI Act: For a Europe free of dystopian mass surveillance!
Brussels, 07/06/2023 – One week before the plenary vote on the new EU regulation on artificial intelligence (the AI Act), biometric mass surveillance turns out to be the main point of …
Author: Patrick Breyer
10 years after the revelations of Edward Snowden: Let‘s defend anonymity and secure communication online!
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance programmes of intelligence agencies worldwide. EU lawmaker and privacy activist Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) acknowledges this milestone …
Summary of Statement Public Prosecutor’s Office, Central and Contact Point Cybercrime (ZAC) on the public hearing of the Digital Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag on “Chat Control”
Original Statement here.
The assessment is made primarily from the perspective of prosecutorial and general law enforcement practice. The perspectives of prevention, improved compliance and other effects on societal, political …
Summary of Statement by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information on the public hearing of the Committee on Digital Affairs of the German Bundestagon the topic of “Chat Control”
Original Statement here.
The fight against child sexual abuse is an extremely important social task that must be fulfilled with all suitable and appropriate means at our disposal. The so-called …
Statement by the Child Protection Association (Der Kinderschutzbund Bundesverband e.V.) on the Public Hearing of the Digital Affairs Committee on “Chat Control”
Summary of statement found here: https://kinderschutzbund.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Statement-for-the-public-hearing-on-chat-control-on-March-1-2023_DKSB.pdf
The proposal and its implications
The EU initiative sends a clear signal to all EU states to take stronger action against sexualised violence against children. …
Chat control: Internal documents show how divided the EU member states are
Original article here.
The EU Commission’s proposal to screen private chat messages is met with scepticism by some member states. Others, however, think it’s great. So far unpublished minutes on …
Clear lines against chat control: Liberals’ paper puts German Interior Minister Faeser on the spot
Original article here. This article was translated by Patrick Breyer’s team with the consent of the original authors from Netzpolitik.org.
Screening chat messages, scanning private photos: For the German …
Three years into the digital fight for freedom in Brussels – Pirates matter!
Three years ago, I entered the European Parliament thanks to 240,000 votes for the German Pirate Party and no blocking threshold (which the German Federal Constitutional Court had declared unconstitutional). Three …
Conservation “ciblée” des données : cartographier ce que le gouvernement belge veut cacher
Le Parlement belge s’apprête à voter en commission ce jeudi 09/06/2022 sur la nouvelle proposition de conservation des données, qui comprend un système de conservation des données prétendument géographiquement “ciblé”. …
EU Digital Services Act: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at …
