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MEPs back ban on AI-driven mass and indiscriminate surveillance European Parliament calls for a ban on police and judicial authorities using facial recognition technology in the EU, at least in the form of mass surveillance in public spaces | The Parliament Magazine [external]
MEPs back EU facial-recognition ban for police | EUObserver [external]
Pegasus spyware: Commission accused of undermining EU’s cybersecurity | Brussels morning [external]
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Billions for Europe’s biometrics giants | Digit.site36 [external]
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Germany’s push for tighter tech regulation | Euractiv [external]
German lawmakers are making the case for tighter obligations for online platforms in the upcoming EU legislation, as they fear that it could produce weaker rules than their current national framework, …
Pirates present game on biometric mass surveillance
Brussels, 16/07/2021 – Today, the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament launches the social impact video game ‘The Biometric Outrun’ to raise awareness of the urgent need to ban …
Pirate Party MEPs on the CJEU upload filter opinion: Freedom of expression shall prevail over profits!
In reaction to the Advocate General’s opinion on the compatibility of Article 17 of the Copyright Directive with fundamental rights published today, MEP Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), the LIBE Committee‘s …
Europe Makes the Case to Ban Biometric Surveillance | Wired UK [external]
“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 …
New EU law allows screening of online messages to detect child abuse | Euractiv [external]
The European Parliament adopted on Tuesday (6 July) the final version of the ePrivacy derogation, a temporary measure enabling providers of electronic communication services to scan and report private online messages …