Breakthrough: Parliament calls for ban of biometric mass surveillance (October 6, 2021)
Strasbourg, 06/10/2021 – Last night, the European Parliament adopted a report on the use of Artificial Intelligence in criminal law and its use…
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Pirates: Facebook outage could have been avoided (October 5, 2021)
Brussels/Strasbourg, 05/10/2021 – Pirate MEPs agreed that yesterday’s outage of Facebook and other networks could have been avoided. The solution would have been…
Pandora Papers: Pirate MEPs call for investigation of Babiš’s illegal activities (October 4, 2021)
Strasbourg, 04/10/2021 – The Pandora Papers are the most wide-ranging leaked documentation of tax evasion and money laundering in history.[1] Documents obtained by…
Cyber Security Month: Pirates introduce 7 privacy tools (October 1, 2021)
October is European Cyber Security Month! Every year, #ECSM aims to raise awareness on how to safely navigate through the internet. For the…
How are European countries trying to silence journalists? (September 30, 2021)
Freedom of the press and journalists is one of the principal safeguards of democracy and the rule of law around the world. However,…
Peksa: New commission will bring better enforcement of ethics rules (September 17, 2021)
Strasbourg 17/09/2021 – The European Parliament has agreed on the need for a new independent ethics body. Pirate Party MEP Mikuláš Peksa was…
Pirates: VDL sugarcoats key issues in SOTEU speech (September 15, 2021)
Strasbourg, 15/09/2021 – In today’s speech [1], Commission President Ursula von der Leyen failed to give a complete picture of the state of…
Game on Biometric Mass Surveillance Released Today (July 16, 2021)
Brussels, 16/07/2021 – Today, the European Pirates and the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament launched the social impact video game ‘The Biometric…
Pirate Party MEPs on the CJEU upload filter opinion: Freedom of expression shall prevail over profits! (July 15, 2021)
In reaction to the Advocate General’s opinion on the compatibility of Article 17 of the Copyright Directive with fundamental rights published today [1],…
Digital Services Act: Civil Liberties Committee pushes for digital privacy and free speech (July 14, 2021)
Digital Services Act: Civil Liberties Committee pushes for digital privacy and free speech Today, the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and…