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One year after copyright vote: PIRATES vow to keep fighting Internet censorship
Exactly one year ago, the EU Parliament adopted the controversial copyright reform, including mandatory upload filters – in spite of massive criticism from experts, more than 150,000 demonstrators on 23 …
In fight against coronavirus, governments embrace surveillance | POLITICO [extern]
The European Commission has gone further, asking all such data to be centralized to speed up prevention across the bloc, three people involved in the talks told POLITICO . But epidemiologists …
COVID-19 Threatens More Than Your Health – Civil Liberties Are About to Be Slashed | CPO Magazine [extern]
COVID-19 Threatens More Than Your Health – Civil Liberties Are About to Be Slashed CPO Magazine
European Parliament allows unsafe eVoting by e-mail
Patrick Breyer, MEP for the Pirate Party,
comments on the email voting procedure adopted by the Bureau of the European Parliament:
“The bureau of the European Parliament is considering to …
EU parliament moves to email voting during COVID-19 pandemic | TechCrunch [extern]
The European Parliament will temporarily allow electronic voting by email as MEPs are forced to work remotely during the coronavirus crisis.
Blanket communications data retention: EU Commission orders biased study
The Home Affairs department of the EU Commission has ordered a study on the EU-wide reintroduction of blanket communications data retention. The contract for the study, which Pirate Party MEP Patrick …
PIRATES criticise use of upload filters because of coronavirus
During the EU copyright reform, there were massive protests, mainly targeted at the upload filters required by Article 13/ Article 17. Now, almost one year after the vote, the video platform …
Patrick Breyer on Coronavirus: No justification for tracking the movements of all citizens!
Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) criticises telecommunications providers such as Deutsche Telekom, the Austrian A1 and the Belgian Proximus for their bulk disclosure of location data in …
Coronavirus: What the EU is doing and what is missing
Because of allegations in social media that the EU is abandoning its citizens in regard to the corona pandemic, the PIRATES in the European Parliament have compiled EU actions addressing the …