For years, the EU police authority Europol has been collecting massive amounts of data without any legal basis. Now Europe’s top data protection official Wojciech Wiewiórowski is taking action against the …
On Sunday, it became known that with the help of the Israeli technology company NSO‘s spy software “Pegasus”, about 50,000 mobile phones of journalists, NGO staff, politicians and human rights activists, …
The negotiations on the EU‘s ePrivacy regulation on data protection in telecommunications and on the Internet are entering the next round after years of deadlock. After the EU governments agreed …
Digital Green Pass raises privacy concerns. The Commission’s plans this week to establish a Digital Green Pass in order to help lift coronavirus travel restrictions have been met with concern from …
Today, the European Commission presented its draft regulation on digital vaccination and testing certificates to restore freedom of travel in the EU in the wake of the Corona pandemic: The so-called …
The MEPS adopted on Tuesday the draft resolution evaluating the functioning of the GDPR and called for effective enforcement, and adequate resources for supervisory authorities.
In the draft resolution adopted …
The Commission’s plan to introduce a “Digital Green Pass” for EU citizens threatens fundamental rights in several respects. While the European Pirates in the Greens/EFA Group support measures that aim at …
Brussels (Brussels Morning): Last week, the Portuguese EU presidency resuscitated the dormant debate on the protection of privacy and confidentiality in the use of electronic communication. An updating of the obsolete …
Today’s agreement by EU governments on a position on privacy in electronic communications (ePrivacy) is met with sharp criticism by MEP Dr. Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), shadow rapporteur for the Greens/European …
Happy Data Protection Day! This international day was established in 2007 in order to raise awareness for how our personal data is used (and abused) online. However, for the European Pirates, …
