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02. October 2024

🇬🇧Thanks to tireless digital freedom fighters in science, NGOs and politics, had to be removed from today's agenda again because there was no qualified majority in sight! 🥂🥳 netzpolitik.org/2024/eu-rat-ch

But no sign of a rethink: it remains on the agenda for the meeting of home affairs ministers on 10 October. parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII

Our next goal: extend the blocking minority to a majority for a fundamental rewriting of this bill!

02. October 2024

🇩🇪Dank unermüdlicher digitaler Freiheitskämpfer in Wissenschaft, NGOs und Politik musste die heute mangels Mehrheit erneut von der Tagesordnung gestrichen werden! 🥂🥳 netzpolitik.org/2024/eu-rat-ch

Doch von Einsicht keine Spur: Für das Innenministertreffen am 10. Oktober bleibt sie auf der Tagesordnung. parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII

Unser nächstes Ziel: Wir müssen von einer knappen Sperrminorität zu einer Mehrheit für ein Neuschreiben dieses Gesetzentwurfs kommen!

02. October 2024

🇬🇧Leak of the extreme proposal for untargeted to be discussed and possibly endorsed today: patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/u

Comment: The EU's obsession with destroying the privacy of correspondence and secure is irresponsible, politically and legally doomed to failure and a betrayal of children who deserve better protection as proposed by the European Parliament!

Information and what you can do: chatcontrol.eu

02. October 2024

🇩🇪Leak des extremen Vorstoßes zur flächendeckenden , der heute diskutiert und möglicherweise durchgeprügelt werden soll: patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/u

Kommentar: Die Obsession der EU, Briefgeheimnis und sichere Verschlüsselung zerstören zu wollen, ist unverantwortlich, politisch aussichtslos, rechtlich zum Scheitern verurteilt und ein Betrug an Kindern, die einen besseren Schutz verdienen!

Infos: chatkontrolle.de

01. October 2024

🇬🇧+++Good news: Netherlands will not support Orban's proposal tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/br +++ Reason: security risks of scanners on every smartphone (client-side scanning) ‘too high’ +++ But only 'a small group of Member States are critical – will they be strong enough to block Chat Control? +++

Tomorrow ambassadors (Coreper) will discuss +++ Contact your governments now! +++ This is how you can help save digital privacy and secure : chatcontrol.eu

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.


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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.