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23. January 2025

🇬🇧: ‘ first’ at any price and without guardrails is not compatible with our values and does more harm than good in the long run. Done wrong, AI is unreliable, discriminatory and can result in a high-tech surveillance state. We see some of the rubbish coming out of China, but also how AI is abused there to suppress critics. That's why Europe is focussing on high quality and the best, not the fastest and biggest AI solutions.

The US now unleashing the technology without regulation will likely bring unreliable and discriminatory AI to Europe, too. If, for example, personal health data is to be exploited for commercial purposes, this can make health insurance expensive for some, or we can be manipulated with targeted advertising because of our health problems.

23. January 2025

🇩🇪Zu : " first" ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste ist nicht mit unseren Werten vereinbar und richtet auf Dauer mehr Schaden an als es nutzt. Falsch gemacht ist KI unzuverlässig, diskriminierend und kann in einen High Tech-Überwachungsstaat führen. Wir sehen, welcher Ramsch teilweise aus China kommt, aber auch wie KI dort zur Unterdrückung von Kritikern missbraucht wird. Deswegen setzt Europa auf hohe Qualität und die besten, nicht die schnellsten und größten KI-Lösungen.

Dass die USA unter Trump die Technologie jetzt völlig unreguliert auf uns loslassen wollen, wird erfahrungsgemäß unzuverlässige und diskriminierende US-KI auch nach Europa kommen lassen. Wenn z.B. persönliche Gesundheitsdaten dort zu kommerziellen Zwecken ausgebeutet werden sollen, kann das dazu führen, dass Krankenversicherung zu teuer wird oder dass wir wegen gesundheitlicher Probleme gezielt mit Werbung manipuliert werden. Europa muss sich jetzt emanzipieren.

Mein Kommentar auf ARTE.

30. December 2024

Es gibt gute Gründe sich informiert dafür oder dagegen zu entscheiden. Dass aber nur 3-4% der Versicherten widersprechen, lässt mich befürchten: Die allermeisten Menschen bleiben nur aus Unsicherheit untätig und werden vor vollendete Tatsachen gestellt.

30. December 2024

Soll ich einer elektronischen widersprechen und wie geht das? Informiere dich jetzt über Chancen, Risiken und Nebenwirkungen: patrick-breyer.de/soll-ich-der

Deine Krankenkasse klärt laut Verbraucherzentrale nicht ausreichend auf, informiere dich selbst!

27. December 2024

🇬🇧Had fun with games over the holidays? Help ensure that manufacturers can no longer simply switch off your favourite game in future! Only 400,000 of 1 million signatures have been collected…

Sign: eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/?l

call for signature: european-pirateparty.eu/europe

Patrick Breyer Digital freedom fighter and former Member of European Parliament for the German and the European Pirate Party

Europe’s voice of privacy and the free Internet

About me

I passionately defend human rights in the age of the digital revolution.
I have been active in the civil liberties movement for many years. In court I successfully contested the first German law on data retention and the law on access to subscriber data. I have sued for Internet surfers’ privacy and achieved access to information regarding Court documents in the EU Commission’s possession.

In the European Parliament, as a member of the Greens/European Free Alliance group, I worked on issues including indiscriminate messaging and chat control, European Digital Identity, European space for health data (EHDS) and privacy in electronic communications (ePrivacy) – more of my former responsibilities here.


Latest Posts


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Digital Euro? A Bad Proposal!

05.06.2024: The Commission proposes to create a digital Euro with mandatory identification, holding limits, and payment limits. Every online payment, no matter how small, would be traceable. I discussed how this jeopardises our right to priv...

Julian Assange: Germany has to say and something!

20.05.2023: Today the UK High Court may greenlight the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for exposing war crimes. Then his fate will be in the hands of the UK Home Secretary James Cleverly and the US President. We need to contin...

Julian Assange to be extradited? Keep up the pressure on the UK!

08.05.2024: Only two weeks to the extradition decision: We must build pressure on the UK to Free Assange NOW, explains Stella Assange in this video.

Julian Assange: Intimidating the press to keep us ignorant

03.05.2024: On Press Freedom Day, it's a disgrace for the West that Julian #Assange remains in prison for his unwelcome revelations! "Intimidating the press is to keep us ignorant" Stella Assange told me. Only transparency will allow us to control...

EU restrictions on cash payments: Hands off our cash!

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange: Will Europe break its silence?

26.02.2024: On 26 February, we Pirates and our parliamentary group voted on whether the "Extradition and prosecution of Julian Assange and its impact on press freedom" should be discussed this week.

EU to make interconnected electronic patient records mandatory for all citizens

EU Parliament doesn't want Chat Control! What next?

#ChatControl: The way out

Real child protection is possible without data retention!

29.09.2023: The Polish Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice recommends weakening jurisdiction and using data retention to prosecute file-sharers. First the killer argument "child protection" and now all dams break to track down petty crimin...

Banning TikTok is not enough to stop the surveillance capitalist business model!

18.09.2023: The €345 million fine against Tik Tok for violating children's privacy is right and way overdue, but much more needs to follow, as I have recently criticised. https://politico.eu/article/tiktok-fine-social-media-china-violate-children-...

Digital Education: How is the EU helping?

Amazing #AIAct victory: EU Parliament just voted to fully ban real-time #facialrecognition in Europe!

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-vote-eu-parliament-to-ban-biometric-mass-surveillance/

Data retention: Myths and Facts

Pirates sailing together in the European Parliament


My priorities for Europe

Protecting human rights in the digital age

PRIVACY

Right to privacy instead of mass surveillance and data retention – because it is nobody’s business, with whom you are in contact and which websites you visit.

CENSORSHIP

Right to the free exchange of information and opinions – so that nobody censors or filters what you are allowed to read and write on the Internet.

COPYRIGHT

Modern, fair copyright law – so that you can no longer be cashed in by lawyers.

FREE KNOWLEDGE

Free software and free knowledge – because projects and ideas get better when everyone can work on them.

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

Right to free movement – because reintroducing border controls in Europe is the wrong way to go.

Update for Europe

As the “Robin Hood of politics” we want to give power back to the citizens

DISCLOSE CONTACTS

Disclosure of contacts between lobbyists and politicians in order to curb the influence of business on politics.

PUBLISH DOCUMENTS

Publication of official documents instead of secret agreements (e.g. TTIP).

INVOLVING CITIZENS

Citizen participation and direct democracy instead of backroom politics behind closed doors.

PROTECT WHISTLEBLOWERS

Protection instead of prosecution of whistleblowers.

SECURE THE RULE OF LAW

Rule of law for everyone instead of private arbitration courts for corporations.