#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 …
Posts and policy
Anti-encryption EU expert group to make access to data a political and technical standard
The EU released a paper on the Commission’s plan for an expert group to replace end-to-end encryption and anonymity by law enforcement access (also known as the “Going Dark” …
AI Act: For a Europe free of dystopian mass surveillance!
Brussels, 07/06/2023 – One week before the plenary vote on the new EU regulation on artificial intelligence (the AI Act), biometric mass surveillance turns out to be the main point …
10 years after the revelations of Edward Snowden: Let‘s defend anonymity and secure communication online!
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the day Edward Snowden revealed the mass surveillance programmes of intelligence agencies worldwide. EU lawmaker and privacy activist Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) acknowledges this …
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 …
Summary of Statement Public Prosecutor’s Office, Central and Contact Point Cybercrime (ZAC) on the public hearing of the Digital Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag on “Chat Control”
Original Statement here.
The assessment is made primarily from the perspective of prosecutorial and general law enforcement practice. The perspectives of prevention, improved compliance and other effects on …
Summary of Statement by the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information on the public hearing of the Committee on Digital Affairs of the German Bundestagon the topic of “Chat Control”
Original Statement here.
The fight against child sexual abuse is an extremely important social task that must be fulfilled with all suitable and appropriate means at our disposal. …
Statement by the Child Protection Association (Der Kinderschutzbund Bundesverband e.V.) on the Public Hearing of the Digital Affairs Committee on “Chat Control”
Summary of statement found here: https://kinderschutzbund.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Statement-for-the-public-hearing-on-chat-control-on-March-1-2023_DKSB.pdf
The proposal and its implications
The EU initiative sends a clear signal to all EU states to take stronger action against sexualised violence …
AI Act: Lead committees to ban facial surveillance in Europe
Today, the two lead committees of the European Parliament voted to fully ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe’s public spaces, namely by using the controversial facial recognition technology. The decision …