Digital experts are calling for taking control away from excessively powerful Internet companies and placing it in the hands of the users themselves. A “Manifesto for self-empowerment” has been presented by …
The EU Commission wants to legalise the mass screening and surveillance of all private electronic communications in search of possible ‘child pornography’, which is currently only practised by some US services …
There is something about elevators that make them fertile ground for forms of abuse across the EU institutions. Countless testimonies over the years attest to these spaces as being chambers of …
The date of the virtual meeting could hardly have had more symbolic power. Five years ago on Friday, attackers went on a rampage in Paris equipped with automatic rifles and bomb …
The European Union has a problem. How does it legislate against the encrypted communication of messaging apps without it looking like an assault on privacy and expanding government surveillance? The answer, …
The EU is calling for access to encrypted communication, claiming this would help the bloc protect its citizens from Islamist radicals
The eight-page text, leaked to the Financial Times and Guardian newspapers, said recent attacks in France and Austria showed the “extent of the threat we face from Islamist terrorism”. “Successful integration …
On November 9, 2020, the Austrian National Service Broadcaster (ORF) published a secret draft of a planned EU Council resolution seeking to undermine encryption. Messaging services such as Whatsapp are to …
Priority question for written answer P-005237/2020
to the Council
Rule 138
Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE)
Question for written answer E-005117/2020
to the Council
Rule 138
Patrick Breyer (Verts/ALE) Answer in writing Subject: Council Decision of 13 July 2018 amending the Act concerning the election of the …
