About: Patrick Breyer
Commission under pressure in EU court over ‘lie detector tech’
The European Commission’s Research Executive Agency has come under questioning from judges at the Court of Justice of the EU, as part of a case focusing on why the agency refuses to disclose documents on the controversial ‘iBorderCtrl’ project.
New cross-border online terrorist content rules sparks rights concerns
EU lawmakers from the European Parliament and the Council signed off on new rules to police online terrorist content Thursday (10 December), in a move that will see pan-European removal orders issued from competent authorities of any EU member state.
EXCLUSIVE: Parliament documents reveal new biometric attendance system
The European Parliament is to test a biometric attendance register for MEPs taking part in meetings at its Brussels premises, internal documents seen by EURACTIV reveal learned. The move has provoked worry among privacy-conscious members of Parliament, who oppose the move to capture MEP fingerprint data.
MEPs take stand against UK fingerprint data exchange scheme
Lawmakers in the European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee have signalled their disapproval at the UK's participation in a fingerprint data exchange scheme with EU member states after the country's decision to withdraw from the bloc.
EPP cite controversial PEPP-PT as example for single European COVID-19 app
The controversial Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) project provides a good example of how an EU COVID-19 mobile app should function, the European Parliament's largest political group said on Tuesday (21 April), drawing criticism from other parties.
EU under pressure to broker online terrorist content agreement
The European Council and Commission are under pressure to make headway on rules to stamp out online terrorist content, the substance of which could provide a precedent for the upcoming Digital Services Act, an MEP involved with the matter told EURACTIV.
Digital Brief: ‘No letting down the guard’
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