Today, the final trilogue negotiations on the TERREG regulation concluded. The results are a major threat to fundamental rights in the EU with only a partial success for digital rights defenders: …
Brussels (Brussels Morning) The European Commission aims to turn Europol , the EU’s police cooperation agency, into a law enforcement agency with real powers, according to proposal announced yesterday on counter-terrorism …
Today, the European Commission presented new proposals for the reform of Europol and a strategy to combat terrorism. Europol has just been reprimanded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Now …
The European Commission presented, on 9 December, two new proposals, on the revision of Europol’s mandate and the new counter-terrorism strategy. Saskia Bricmont MEP , Greens/EFA Member of the Civil Liberties, …
On Tuesday, the European Parliament voted on the Report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2018-2019. The Pirates supported the amendment which condemns the detention and criminal …
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, …
