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Breyer: Kaili‘s role in pushing for CSAM scanner proposal needs investigating
Following the arrest of the Greek Social Democrat MEP Eva Kaili on serious corruption charges, the EU Parliament today voted to revoke her Vice-Presidency with one vote against and two …
Council position on political advertising opens the door to election manipulation
Today, the EU Council adopted a position on the proposed Regulation on transparency and targeting of political advertising; the text had already been published beforehand. Member …
Chat control: Mass surveillance proposal will let children down
EU Interior Ministers today discussed the proposal to automatically search all private correspondence for suspected content (so-called „chat control“). They insisted in pursuing an approach of …
AI Act: EU governments open door for biometric mass surveillance in public spaces
Today the ministers of the 27 Member States agreed on a general approach (i.e. a common position) on the future AI Act – the EU law that will regulate artificial …
Political advertising: EU lawmakers to reign in on surveillance-based targeting of political advertising
Today, the European Parliament’s LIBE committee voted to restrict the use of personal data to target online political advertisements to data explicitly provided for this purpose by citizens with their …
EU Declaration on Digital Rights agreed
Last week, the leaders of the European Parliament’s political groups agreed to a „European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade”. The signing by …
Kick-off for EU database of public domain works and digital access to scientific works
With yesterday’s budget vote, the EU Parliament approved the funding of two pilot projects in the field of free knowledge initiated by the Pirate Party’s MEP Patrick Breyer in cooperation …
