European Health Data Space: My health is my business, respect that!
In the run-up to tomorrow’s vote in the European Parliament on the creation of a European Health Data Space and on amendments to prevent a mandatory European patient file, Pirate …
Category: European Parliament
Pirate party initiative makes the European Court of Justice more transparent than ever before
In future, the European Court of Justice will proactively and systematically publish the letters and arguments submitted by the parties to proceedings on its website after a judgement has been …
Secure encryption and end of voluntary chat control on Facebook and Instagram protect innocent users and support law enforcement!
Meta, the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, has announced significant security enhancements to its Messenger direct messaging service. In the future all personal calls and messages will be …
EU Digital Identity Regulation (eIDAS): Pirates don’t support blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online!
The EU Parliament’s Industry Committee today approved a new EU regulation on digital identity (eIDAS 2) against the votes of the Pirates and their group. According to the law, …
Extension of voluntary chat control is an admission of EU Commission’s failure!
Now that the EU plans for mass screening of private communications and undermining secure end-to-end encryption (chat control 2.0) have been put on ice due to a lack of majority …
European Health Data Space: EU committees vote in favour of mandatory interconnected electronic patient records for all citizens
The lead committees of the European Parliament, LIBE and ENVI, have today voted in favour of the creation of a “European Health Data Space” (EHDS), which will bring together …
Mandatory digitalisation in the healthcare sector: EU Parliament and EU governments plan compulsory electronic patient record for all
In the upcoming Committee vote on creating a European Health Data Space (EHDS) on 28 November, the European Parliament wants to support the mandatory registration of every treatment of a …
Historic agreement on child sexual abuse proposal (CSAR): European Parliament wants to remove chat control and safeguard secure encryption
Today the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) in the European Parliament adopted by a large majority (51:2:1) a mandate to negotiate the controversial …
Former CJEU judge: EU Chat Control plans for indiscriminately searching private messages and breaking secure encryption are doomed to fail in court
In another blow to the EU Commission’s proposed child sexual abuse regulation, a former judge of the EU’s top court of justice finds that the proposed …
Political advertising: EU won’t ban voter manipulation and microtargeting
Yesterday, the EU Parliament and Council agreed on new rules on transparency and targeting of political advertising. The Parliament was able to secure a publicly accessible library of online political …