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Bordering on Artificial | CPO Magazine [extern]
CPO Magazine reported last month that Amazon’s facial recognition technology, Rekognition, launched in 2016, is now able to recognise several emotions, including fear.
Given Amazon’s active marketing of the service to …
Europe needs ‘digital border controls,’ industry chief says | EURACTIV [extern]
Europe should consider establishing a ‘digital border control,’ as a means of obstructing internet access to hostile actors in the event of a serious cyberattack, the head of Deutsche Telekom’s cybersecurity …
Today’s Court Hearing on Data Retention: “Greatest Threat”
Today and tomorrow, the European Court of Justice will hear complaints against indiscriminate data retention in France (C-511/18), Belgium (C-520/18) and the United Kingdom (C-623/17). Civil liberties activist and MEP Patrick …
Splintered Parliament faces 5 years of rancor| politico [external]
The Greens also feel emboldened to push their causes harder, given how climate protection has broken through into the mainstream. Their team wants to attach sustainability criteria to trade deals and …
German copyright public consultation is open now: make your voice heard!
Where we are in the process
Despite the many controversial issues surrounding the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, the legislation got adopted by the European Parliament on …
“Video lie detector” for travelers: Patrick Breyer sues EU for keeping the iBorderCtrl project secret
The EU is funding the development of a “video lie detector” to detect deception by immigrants through video recordings of their faces. Because the EU is keeping information on this scientifically …
No more data retention!
In response to the criticism published yesterday by more than 30 civil society organisations of EU plans to reintroduce the retention of communications and location data for all citizens, MEP …
Communications trainee in Brussels, to qualify as local assistant in Berlin
We are offering a full-time paid position as trainee to strengthen the Pirate MEP’s team (duration: 3-5 months). By completing the traineeship you qualify to apply for the position of a …
