The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament’s Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check – Patrick Breyer

#ChatControl #ActionNeeded #Europe #EU #privacy #pirateparty #pirati #MassSurveilance #resist

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-battle-over-chat-control-how-eu-governments-and-the-tech-lobby-are-trying-to-overturn-parliaments-vote-a-comprehensive-fact-check/

The Battle Over Chat Control: How EU Governments and the Tech Lobby Are Trying to Overturn Parliament's Vote — A Comprehensive Fact Check

This week, the European Parliament faces a decisive vote on whether the indiscriminate scanning of private chats and emails by US tech companies (Chat Control 1.0) will be allowed to continue. After Parliament voted on 11 March to replace blanket mass surveillance with targeted monitoring of suspect

Patrick Breyer

The political questions that relate to innocence in danger politicized me (on the opposite political side, #pirateparty stuff). We are coming full circle. Mind: blown. #Innocenceindanger

https://x.com/ciabaudo/status/2018910678845706503?s=20

If what Markéta Gregorová 🦄 has said in multiple interviews is true—that she’s an anarchist at heart—then she should drop the political games in the European Parliament.

#PiratePolitics #PirateParty #Piratpartiet #Anarchism

Ενημέρωση για την πρόταση κανονισμού, Digital Omnibus:

https://pad.pirateparty.gr/p/r.1a39f2dd8ccc4b6a802de37195300579

#DigitalRights #ΨηφιακάΔικαιώματα
#pirateparty

Etherpad

Two votes in the #Czech #Elections are going to the #CzechPirateParty. Honestly, several years ago, I never thought I would vote for them. However, the sudden change in leadership made voting for them appealing.
#parlamentelections #eu #europe #europa #pirateparty #pirates #pirati #PiratskaStrana #volby #volby2025

Is this a joke?

I'm researching minor political parties in New Mexico...digging into obscure/forgotten trigraphs for various parties. (Now I know that WFP = Working Families Party)

As a resource I found:
https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/docs/Political_Party_Codes.htm

See screenshot.

#USpol #PoliticalParty #PoliticalParties #PirateParty

Massachusetts Pirate Party supports a map that identifies the location of surveillance cameras and the area under surveillance.

Anyone can update the map with surveillance camera locations around the world.

The map is based on OpenStreetMap but the data is not visualized on OpenStreetMap.org.

Instructions: https://masspirates.org/wiki/Mapping_Cameras_with_OpenStreetMap%27s_Web_UI

Website: https://cctv.masspirates.org
Mastodon: @masspirates

#MassPirates #PirateParty #Surveillance #CCTV #Privacy #OpenStreetMap #OSM #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware

@rms @Piratenpartij @piratenpartei @piratepartyau @PiratenMastodon

I see a very clear #PirateParty case here:

Let’s rewrite the IP law that gives US companies an edge over EU technology companies, and make it work for us instea.

USA is engaged in classic #mercantilism: Use threats & international trade agreements to benefit it’s own companies while undercutting the same sector in potential competitor states.