Today, Members of the European Parliament will vote on a report by the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) on artificial intelligence (AI) in the area of civil and military uses …
Last night the European Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee (LIBE) adopted the regulation to prevent the dissemination of terrorist content online (TERREG).[1] Committee Member Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) who participated in …
With a supposed “video lie detector”, the EU has funded the testing of “artificial intelligence” on travellers. The technology claims to detect deception by immigrants by analysing video recordings of their …
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 Commission presented the Digital Services Act (DSA), proposing the biggest revision of internet rules in 20 years. The DSA will introduce new rules for tech giants such as …
Today, the final trilogue negotiations on the TERREG regulation concluded. The results are a major threat to fundamental rights in the EU with only a partial success for digital rights defenders: …
Today, the European Commission presented new proposals for the reform of Europol and a strategy to combat terrorism. Europol has just been reprimanded by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS). Now …
On Tuesday, the European Parliament voted on the Report on the situation of fundamental rights in the European Union 2018-2019. The Pirates supported the amendment which condemns the detention and criminal …
Digital experts are calling for taking control away from excessively powerful Internet companies and placing it in the hands of the users themselves. A “Manifesto for self-empowerment” has been presented by …
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 …
