On 9 February, the world is celebrating Safer Internet Day (SID). The MEPs of the European Pirates fully support the annual initiative, which aims at making the internet a safer and …
The indiscriminate and error-prone automated screening of private emails and messages in search of child pornography and grooming by US corporations such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft is partly illegal. This …
The EU wants private e-mail, messaging and chat conversations to be screened for suspicious content generally and indiscriminately. On the eve of tomorrow’s European Data Protection Day, an international campaign against …
Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) welcomes the decision by Facebook to suspend the error-prone mass screening of all private messages for prohibited depictions of minors with …
Today the European Parliament’s Civil liberties Committee voted to restrict the ePrivacy Directive which aims at protecting private communications. The Parliament accepts for the first time searching all electronic communications …
The EU Commission wants to legalise the mass screening and surveillance of all private electronic communications in search of possible ‘child pornography’, which is currently only practised by some US services …
Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), Member of the European Parliament, has filed a complaint with the data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein against the practise of large US corporations such as Facebook (Facebook …
The European Parliament today debated a draft legislation by the EU Commission that would allow the screening without suspicion of all private electronic communication via messenger or e-mail to search …
The EU Commission is proposing to screen and monitor all private electronic communications without suspicion in order to search for possible child pornographic content. Today it presented draft legislation to …
The EU Commission wants all private electronic communications to be screened for possible child pornography, in the absence of any suspicion. This week it intends to present draft legislation …
