Take action to stop chat control now!
Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. EU governments are to express their position on the latest proposal on 23 September. EU Ministers of the Interior …
Tag: data protection
ECJ ruling on Meta browsing records: Breakthrough for online privacy
Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer, who has sued in court for more than 10 years against the clickstream logging, celebrates today’s ECJ ruling against the U.S. Internet company Meta …
UN Human Rights Commissioner warns against chat control
Clear lines against chat control: Liberals’ paper puts German Interior Minister Faeser on the spot
Original article here. This article was translated by Patrick Breyer’s team with the consent of the original authors from Netzpolitik.org.
Screening chat messages, scanning private photos: For the German …
Three years into the digital fight for freedom in Brussels – Pirates matter!
Three years ago, I entered the European Parliament thanks to 240,000 votes for the German Pirate Party and no blocking threshold (which the German Federal Constitutional Court had declared unconstitutional). Three …
Leak on chat control: EU Commission anticipates millions of false positives
German news website netzpolitik.org leaked a record of internal discussions regarding the EU‘s proposed online child abuse law (dubbed “chat control”) which is …
Stop Europol’s illegal bulk data collection!
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 …
„Pegasus” spy software: Pirate MEP wants to hold device manufacturers accountable
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, …
ePrivacy regulation: Trilogue negotiations start today
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 Brief: Digital Green Pass, Irish DPC spat, EUCO data spaces | Euractiv [external]
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 …