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Pirates don’t support flawed AI Act
Today, the European Parliament’s lead committees on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the IMCO and LIBE committees, approved the trilogue results of the law in a joint vote. In its …
Child Protection Day: Mass surveillance prevents finding real solutions
On the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (#EndChildSexAbuseDay) on 18 November 2023, civil rights activist and MEP Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party, Greens/EFA) …
Pirates: Torturing animals for fur must be banned
Strasbourg, 19/10/2023 – Pirate Party MEPs are joined by Pirate Party representatives from Germany and Luxembourg in supporting the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur Free Europe”[1], which was debated today in the …
Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!
Tomorrow, Thursday 19 October, the Justice and Home Affairs Council will not adopt its position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, …
Media freedom: Pirates call for protection of journalists from spyware without exceptions
Strasbourg, 03/10/2023 – Today, the European Parliament will decide its position on the ‘Media Freedom Act’, the new law for freedom of press in the EU. The rules are designed to …
ECJ Advocate General wants to use indiscriminate internet data retention against file sharers
In a non-binding opinion issued yesterday, the Polish Advocate General at the European Court of Justice, Szpunar, recommends watering down the current jurisprudence and allowing blanket retention of …
Abuse survivor files suit against #ChatControl searches in private messages
Today, a child sexual abuse survivor from Bavaria, supported by the German Society for Civil Liberties (GFF), filed a lawsuit against tech corporation Meta’s practise of scanning direct messages in search …
#Qatargate: New Ethics Body is toothless
Today, the European Commission presented its plans for an inter-institutional Ethics Body in response to the “Qatargate” corruption scandal in the European Parliament to increase transparency in …
Data Retention: Red Line Against Storage of Citizens’ IP Addresses
CJEU case: Patrick Breyer MEP draws a red line against storage of citizens’ IP addresses
On 15 and 16 May the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union …