Pirates welcome new manufacturing rules (July 12, 2023)
Today, the European Parliament adopted its position on the Ecodesign regulation for the trilogue negotiations with the Council. MEPs drafted a law that…
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AI Act: Lead committees to ban facial surveillance in Europe (May 11, 2023)
Strasbourg, 11/05/2023 – Today, the two lead committees of the European Parliament voted to fully ban biometric mass surveillance in Europe’s public spaces,…
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…
#ChatControl survey: Children don’t want to be “protected” by scanning or age-restricting messenger and chat apps (March 7, 2023)
Brussels, 07/03/2023 – A representative survey reveals that 66% of minors oppose internet providers scanning personal messages for suspect content, measures which are…
EU lawmakers want to stop surveillance-based political advertising (January 24, 2023)
Today, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) adopted amendments to draft legislation which seek to restrict the…
Pardon Assange: 45 MEPs, Stella Assange & journalist federations sign open letter to US President Biden (December 15, 2022)
Strasbourg 15/12/2022 – Today, four Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA) and Stella Assange address US President Joe Biden in an…
Corruption affair: Pirates demand inquiry committee and modification of internal rules (December 14, 2022)
Strasbourg, 12/12/2022 – The four Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament are appalled by the ongoing corruption affair around Vice-President Eva Kaili…
Pirates: Common charger a win for users and the environment (October 4, 2022)
Strasbourg, 04/10/2022 – Today, Members of the European Parliament approved the outcome of the trilogue negotiations on the Common Charger directive. A strong…
MEP Kolaja on Pegasus: investigation lacks transparency (September 29, 2022)
On 8 September, MEPs of the PEGA investigative Committee questioned representatives of the Greek Ministry of Justice and the Digital Agenda Administration over…
MEP Kolaja: Pegasus was used to spy on Polish opposition, journalists and public prosecutors (September 21, 2022)
Warsaw, 21/09/2022 – Today, the mission of the European Parliament’s PEGA committee to investigate the use of Pegasus spyware in Poland concluded. The…