Pirates: AI Act fails to protect citizens’ rights (March 13, 2024)
Strasbourg, 13/03/2024 – Today, MEPs shall approve the outcome of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), establishing new rules…
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Thanks to Pirates: EU Parliament approves new level of Court transparency (February 27, 2024)
The European Parliament today voted by a large majority in favour of a reform of the ECJ Statute. In future, the European Court of Justice…
Public »Going Dark« Consultation: Pirate MEPs call for an end to the undemocratic surveillance forge (February 20, 2024)
The EU High-Level Group (HLG) on access to data for effective law enforcement, also known as the #EUGoingDark group, is consulting non-governmental organisations…
Pirates vote against #ChatControl 1.0 extension (February 7, 2024)
Strasbourg, 07/02/2024 – Today, the European Parliament supported a one-year extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive, also known as Chat…
eIDAS: Pirates don’t support blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online (December 7, 2023)
The EU Parliament’s Industry Committee today approved a new EU regulation on digital identity (eIDAS 2) against the votes of the Pirates and…
Historic agreement on #ChatControl: European Parliament wants to safeguard secure encryption (October 26, 2023)
This week, the European Parliament’s negotiators reached a broad majority agreement on a common position concerning the controversial EU chat control bill. The…
EU elections 2024: Pirate Party MEPs lead Czech list (September 18, 2023)
Prague, 18/09/2023 – On Saturday, Pirate Party MEP Marcel Kolaja was elected to lead the Pirate candidates for the European elections 2024. Kolaja…
Manipulative EU opinion poll no justification for indiscriminate #ChatControl (July 21, 2023)
The EU Department of the Interior DG Home claims to have proven with a Eurobarometer opinion poll that the vast majority of the EU population…
Pirates: Anti-corruption measures in the European Parliament are inadequate (May 5, 2023)
Brussels, 05/05/2023 – Pirate Party MEPs have presented their own vision of anti-corruption rules for the European Parliament and the European Commission, which…
Unauthorised livestreams: Access blocking harms fans and users (May 4, 2023)
Brussels, 03/05/2023 – Today, the European Commission recommended measures to fight “livestream piracy”. The text also advocates “blocking injunctions” targeted at Internet Service…