Patrick Breyer

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Dr. Patrick Breyer ist der bei der Europawahl 2019 gewählte Europa-Abgeordnete der Piratenpartei.

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Oct 6, 2025	Chat Control Is Back On The Menu In The EU. It Still Must Be Stopped	The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat Control, which EFF has strongly opposed ...
Jan 24, 2025	The Fragile Fortress of Privacy: Navigating the Crossroads of AI and Encryption	In the digital age, privacy is a fortress under siege. Recent revelations about vulnerabilities in popular communication platforms and the looming presence of artificial intelligence (AI) threaten to erode the walls of this fortress. As we ...
Jan 22, 2025	Станет ли ИИ катастрофой для сквозного шифрования?	Недавно я обнаружил потрясающую новую статью How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI, написанную группой исследователей из Нью-Йоркского и Корнеллского университетов. Я очень рад прочтению этой статьи, потому что, хоть не согласен с...
Jun 26, 2024	EU’s ‘Going Dark’ Expert Group Publishes 42-Point Surveillance Plan For Access To All Devices And Data At All Times	Techdirt has been covering the disgraceful attempts by the EU to break end-to-end encryption — supposedly in order to “protect the children” — for two years now. An important vote that could have seen EU nations back the proposal was due to...
May 10, 2024	The European Data Protection Board’s Opinion on “Pay or Okay” Models – Surveillance-based Advertising is on Borrowed Time	Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018, civil society has hoped—and industry has feared—that its enforcement would spell the end of surveillance-based advertising and the ubiquitous tracking it requires...
Mar 15, 2024	Mai mulți parlamentari europeni se opun modelului Meta, de abonament fără reclame pentru Facebook și Instagram	39 de membri ai Parlamentului European au trimis o scrisoare deschisă către Meta prin care cer companiei lui Mark Zuckerberg să renunțe la abonamentul fără reclame pentru Facebook și Instagram.
Mar 15, 2024	Scrap coercive ‘privacy fee,’ MEPs urge Meta’s Nick Clegg in open letter	Meta is facing a call from lawmakers in the European Union to scrap its controversial “consent or pay” tactic on Facebook and Instagram. Currently, the company demands a per-account fee of €9.99/month on web or €12.99/month on mobile for us...
Jan 10, 2024	EU lawmakers under pressure to fully disclose dealings with child safety tech maker, Thorn	More trouble for European Union lawmakers in a controversial area of tech policymaking — namely the bloc’s proposed legislation to apply surveillance technologies, such as client-side scanning, to digital messaging to try to detect child se...
Feb 2, 2023	Political ads face tougher targeting restrictions in EU if MEPs get their way	Europe has moved a step closer to having dedicated rules on online political ad targeting and transparency after the European Parliament fixed its negotiating position — paving the way for talks to start between MEPs and member states to ag...
Sep 27, 2022	Защитить IoT-устройства — что предлагают регуляторы	Число ботнетов на базе умных гаджетов постоянно растет. На ситуацию начали обращать внимание регуляторы. Мы решили обсудить обстановку в разных странах и можно ли наконец поставить букву S (stands for security) в аббревиатуру IoT./ Unsplash...
Sep 20, 2022	Europe’s top court chalks up more strikes against bulk data retention	Yet more strikes against general and indiscriminate data retention in the EU: The bloc’s top court has issued a couple of rulings on joined cases today — one related to a German law on telecoms data retention which had been challenged by De...
Jul 6, 2022	UK signs deal to exchange police biometric data with US border officials, report	The Home Office and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have reportedly signed a deal, allowing the US border officials to have full access to the UK police-held biometric data. According to Patrick Breyer, a member of the European...
Jan 19, 2022	The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver that Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic	The Domain Name System has been an essential component of the Internet since the mid-eighties. DNS resolvers make it possible to map a human-readable domain name to an IP-address, so a website or service can be easily located. Older people ...
Nov 1, 2021	Digging into Google’s push to freeze ePrivacy	Google has responded to allegations contained in a recently unsealed US antitrust lawsuit that it worked covertly to stall European Union privacy legislation that could have blasted a huge hole in its behaviorial advertising business. Per t...
Oct 21, 2021	RIAA Criticizes ICANN for ‘Hindering’ Its Anti-Piracy Efforts	Tackling online piracy is a complicated endeavor that often starts by identifying the operators of infringing sites and services. This is also where the first hurdles come into play. Most pirate operations shroud themselves in secrecy and d...
Oct 1, 2021	EU Parliament Committee Adopts Digital Services Act	In recent years the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. This includes the Copyright Directive which passed in 2019 as well as the Digital Services Act, which was officially ...
Jul 16, 2021	‘Upload Filters’ Don’t Violate Freedom of Expression, Advocate General Finds	In 2019 the European Parliament adopted the new Copyright Directive that aims to modernize how copyright is protected in the online environment. After the directive passed, individual EU member states began working on implementing the text ...
May 19, 2021	Proton, the privacy startup behind e2e encrypted ProtonMail, confirms passing 50M users	End-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has officially confirmed it’s passed 50 million users globally as it turns seven years old. It’s a notable milestone for a services provider that intentionally does not have a data business — o...
May 19, 2021	EU Parliament Votes For New Legislation to Remove Pirated Sports Streams in Real-Time	In recent years the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. This includes the Copyright Directive which passed last year as well as the Digital Services Act, which was officiall...
Apr 15, 2021	MEPs call for European AI rules to ban biometric surveillance in public	A cross-party group of 40 MEPs in the European parliament has called on the Commission to strengthen an incoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence to include an outright ban on the use of facial recognition and other forms of ...
Apr 9, 2021	EU Parliament Wants Pirated Sports Streams Taken Down Within 30 Minutes	In recent years the European Commission has proposed and adopted various legislative changes to help combat online piracy. This includes the Copyright Directive which passed last year as well as the Digital Services Act, which was officiall...
Jan 26, 2021	Rushing to Judgment: Examining Government Mandated Content Moderation	On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant logged on to 8chan and posted a message on a far-right thread to spread the word that he would be livestreaming an attack on “invaders.” Around 20 minutes later, Tarrant entered a mosque in Christchurch, N...
Jan 19, 2021	If Trump Can Be Banned, What About Other World Leaders Who Incite Violence?	Twitter finally banned Donald Trump on January 8th, 12 days before the end of his term as president, and two days after he instigated a violent mob that stormed the Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 election. Facebo...
	RIAA Criticizes ICANN for ‘Hindering’ Its Anti-Piracy Efforts	Tackling online piracy is a complicated endeavor that often starts by identifying the operators of infringing sites and services. This is also where the first hurdles come into play. Most pirate operations shroud themselves in secrecy and d...
	The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver that Can Block ‘Unlawful’ Traffic	The Domain Name System has been an essential component of the Internet since the mid-eighties. DNS resolvers make it possible to map a human-readable domain name to an IP-address, so a website or service can be easily located. Older people ...

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