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,…
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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…
e-ID: Decentralised storage and right to anonymity are additional Pirate successes in final trilogue mandate (March 15, 2023)
Brussels, 15/03/2023 – On Thursday, the European Parliament is expected to formally adopt its final position on the European Electronic Identity (e-ID), before…
#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…
Protect children from exploitation and mass surveillance online! (November 18, 2022)
Today, 18 November, is European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse. Children and young people need special…
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…
UN Human Rights Commissioner warns against chat control (September 19, 2022)
UN Human Rights Commissioner Türk advises against EU plans to search all private messages and photos without suspicion using error-prone algorithms (so-called “chat…