Posts Tagged: european commission

The spirit of Brexit has infected the EU

Opinion

4.11.2024

It is a tragic indictment of the EU's leaders that, by holding out against moderate but fundamental political change, they guaranteed the ...

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The EU’s Orwellian agenda: Using child protection to justify mass surveillance

8.10.2024

The EU claims to stand for freedom and democracy but, behind closed doors, it schemes for mandatory mass-surveillance

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EU Commission Chat Control regulation: Mass-surveillance and data collection disguised as protecting children online

Opinion

8.10.2024

We call on citizens in Europe to stand up for their right to privacy, and reject any further of the implementation of Chat Control regulation

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Greece train crash: The EU has blood on its hands

3.03.2023

While the EU was quick to symbolically pay tributes, its role in the privatisation of the Greek railway played a big part in the tragedy

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DiEM25 backs campaign to halt EU Commission’s anti-privacy legislation

4.08.2022

We are among over 100 civil society and professional organisations that have signed a letter to uphold privacy, security and free expression

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EU Commission plans to end encryption and make Big Tech the gatekeeper

Opinion

28.07.2022

The European Commission is dressing up its latest attempt to end encryption under the guise of protection against child sexual abuse material.

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The European Commission’s CSAM legislation poses a huge threat to personal privacy

25.05.2022

The scale of the legislation and what it seeks to regulate is alarming. It's not about publicly available content, but Europeans' private messages

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The EU is undermining citizens’ right to privacy

Opinion

5.02.2021

The EU's recent proposals on encryption threaten to establish "a front door" to encrypted digital communications.

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The democratic deficit in the US should lead us to examine our own in Europe

3.11.2020

With the US second-to-last for electoral integrity amongst liberal democracies, we need to turn our attention to the democratic deficit within the EU.

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