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…
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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…
Study: Russian-linked companies received public tenders worth €2.5 billion since February 2022 (April 21, 2023)
Prague, 21/04/2023 – The Czech think tank Datlab found that the volume of EU public contracts awarded to Russian-linked firms did not decline since February…
#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…
European Parliament adopted new legislation on political ads (February 6, 2023)
According to the new rules, only personal data provided with explicit consent can be used for the purpose of targeting. Behaviour intelligence, a…