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 …
Today, the European Parliament by 259:403:30 votes rejected the attempt to remove the call for a ban on biometric mass surveillance, such as by means of facial recognition …
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 …
The Pandora Papers are the most wide-ranging leaked documentation of tax evasion and money laundering in history. Documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) also …
Today, MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg discussed the scandal surrounding “Pegasus”, a spyware program developed in Israel. Sadly, Pegasus is not the only commercial spyware on the market, …
In today’s speech, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen failed to give a complete picture of the state of the European Union. While the European Pirates Delegation in the …
It is now been 20 years since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center that cost thousands of lives. And to this day we suffer from the wrong political …
Next week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear a case concerning the German law on the general, indiscriminate and comprehensive retention of all connection, location and internet access …
“Deploying remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces means the end of anonymity in those places,” the heads of the two bodies, Andrea Jelinek and Wojciech Wiewiórowski, wrote in a joint …
