On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the “Tornado Cash” software he developed enables …
32 European police chiefs have issued a joint statement calling for a halt to the introduction of secure end-to-end encryption for direct messages sent via Facebook and Instagram. …
Shortly before the European Parliament is to extend the voluntary chat control bulk scanning of private messages by US services such as Facebook, Instagram, or Gmail by two years, the …
Europol has published its Internet Organised Crime Assessment (IOCTA) (PDF). The report assesses the cybercrime landscape and describes how threads have changed over the last two years.
Patrick …
Today, the European Parliament’s lead committees on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the IMCO and LIBE committees, approved the trilogue results of the law in a joint vote. In its …
On the European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (#EndChildSexAbuseDay) on 18 November 2023, civil rights activist and MEP Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party, Greens/EFA) …
Strasbourg, 19/10/2023 – Pirate Party MEPs are joined by Pirate Party representatives from Germany and Luxembourg in supporting the European Citizens’ Initiative “Fur Free Europe”[1], which was debated today in the …
Tomorrow, Thursday 19 October, the Justice and Home Affairs Council will not adopt its position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, …
Strasbourg, 03/10/2023 – Today, the European Parliament will decide its position on the ‘Media Freedom Act’, the new law for freedom of press in the EU. The rules are designed to …
