Tomorrow: Belgian mass surveillance proposal on data retention
Tomorrow, Wednesday 18 May, the members of the Committee on the Economy, Consumer Protection and Digital Agenda in the Belgian Parliament will debate for the second time and then vote …
Category: Press releases
EU chat control bill: fundamental rights terrorism against trust, self-determination and security on the Internet
Today, the European Commission presented publicly for the first time an EU draft law on mandatory chat control. With the stated intention of fighting against “child …
“Destruction of digital privacy of correspondence”: lawsuit filed against chat control
Yesterday, Member of the European Parliament and digital freedom fighter Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) filed an action for an injunction against the so-called chat control against Facebook’s …
Belgium: What “geographically targeted” data retention would really mean
Today, a draft for a new law on data retention has been discussed in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies. Among other things, the …
Twitter takeover by Elon Musk: Patrick Breyer warns against mandatory authentication plans
Today it became known that Twitter is accepting Elon Musk’s takeover bid for 44 billion dollars. In the run-up, the Tesla boss had announced: “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will …
Partial success against Internet censorship: Top EU Court severely restricts upload filters
EU Digital Services Act: Industry and government interests prevail over citizens’ digital rights
After 16 hours of discussion, negotiators from the European Parliament and EU governments have just made deal on a new EU Digital Services Act. Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer sat at …
Showdown on DSA: Pirates demand protection of fundamental digital rights against censorship and espionage
On Friday, representatives of the EU Parliament, Commission and Council will meet for what is expected to be the last round of negotiations on the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). After …
Comeback of data retention? Former EU judge dismisses Commission’s plans
On 8 April 2014 the European Court of Justice annulled the EU Data Retention Directive which required the bulk collection of any citizens call detail records and location. 8 years later …
Right to Repair must bring more rights for consumers, say Pirates
Today, MEPs vote in plenary on a resolution for the “right to repair”, which was presented and adopted by the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO) …