📜 Oggi 26 novembre una piccola delegazione del comitato Privacy Bene Comune, ha portato presso la sede dell'Autorità Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali il manifesto del Privacy Pride.

🤝 La nostra delegazione, costituita da Andrea Laisa (amreo), Francesco Macchia (macfranc) ed Enrico Nardelli, ha consegnato nelle mani del dott. Guido Scorza, membro del collegio del Garante, e del dottor Baldo Meo, direttore della comunicazione, la copia originale del Manifesto corredata delle dediche apposte da alcuni dei manifestanti intervenuti durante il presidio del 13 novembre.

💡 Durante l'incontro abbiamo avuto modo di confrontarci su come promuovere la cultura della privacy semplificando i processi che consentono ai cittadini di comprendere il valore della privacy e della sua protezione, attraverso la promozione dell'educazione a una vera e propria difesa personale digitale e attraverso la sensibilizzazione delle pubbliche amministrazioni centrali e locali nel portare la propria comunicazione istituzionale anche su piattaforme e protocolli che non compromettano la privacy delle persone, come per esempio quelli del fediverso.

🙋🏻‍♂️ Abbiamo infine auspicato la possibilità di organizzare insieme alla Autorità un nuovo incontro in videoconferenza per presentare le proposte che l'intera comunità del Privacy Pride elaborerà per promuovere una cultura attiva della protezione dei dati personali.

🗣 Chi volesse entrare nella comunità del Privacy Pride, potrà unirsi alla nostra chat, raggiungibile sia tramite Telegram, sia tramite Matrix! 👇

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The EU supported trials of the use of “artificial intelligence” at its borders by testing a “video lie detector” on travellers. On 15 March 2019, MEP and civil liberties activist Dr Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party) filed a lawsuit for the release of secret documents on the ethical justifiability, legality and the results of the technology. The European Court of Justice will deliver its judgement publicly in Luxembourg on 15 December 2021 (Case T-158/19). A landmark ruling could generally shed light on EU-funded „security research“.

In April 2021, it emerged that the „iBorderCtrl“ project, which was entirely funded by the EU, used part of its funding to lobby legislators for fundamental rights restrictions which would allow the use of its controversial technology on travellers. The EU Commission tried to hide this in a partially redacted document that was reconstructed by technical means. In her response to a written question by Patrick Breyer, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson denied that the lobbying— which was clearly proven in the document— had taken place. In October, the European Parliament expressed “concern” about the iBorderCtrl project. Under a follow-up project, “TRESSPASS”, the EU has again funded the testing of unscientific technology to “assess the sincerity of the traveller and his statements.

“The European Union keeps funding illegal technology that violates fundamental rights and is unethical,” Breyer criticises. “It declares the projects a ‘trade secret’ of the corporations involved. With my transparency complaint, I want to have it clarified once and for all that the taxpayer, science, media and parliaments have a right to access publicly funded research – especially in the case of pseudoscientific and Orwellian developments like the ‘video lie detector’.”

In China, technology for emotion recognition based on CCTV footage is already being used in prisons, schools, retirement homes and police stations on the Uighur minority.

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Yesterday afternoon, the new German government coalition of SPD, FDP and the Greens presented its coalition agreement to the public. MEP, civil rights activist and lawyer Dr Patrick Breyer of the Pirate Party hails the new positions Germany is taking on EU digital policies:

“Regarding the Digital Services Act negotiations, the new German government says: “The right to anonymity both in public space and on the internet must be guaranteed.” This right needs to become part of the Digital Services Act in order to prevent unauthorised disclosure, identity theft and other forms of abuse of personal data.

The new German government also demands that ‘biometric recognition in public spaces … must be ruled out under European law’. This is great support for an EU-wide ban on biometric mass surveillance and provides important backing for the negotiations on the upcoming AI act.

Germany is likewise speaking out against the EU’s plans for chat control, i.e. the error-prone warrantless screening of all private communications on the Internet. It now supports the ‘right to encryption’. The new government thus sends a clear signal to Ursula von der Leyen and Ylva Johansson to stop the insane plans for chat control on all smartphones, which violate fundamental rights and threaten the secrecy of and trust in digital communications.

Finally Germany wants communications data retention “on an ad hoc basis and by judicial order” only. Commissioner Ylva Johansson should immediately stop her work on bringing back mandatory communications data retention throughout the EU. Such invasive surveillance of unsuspected citizens by collecting sensitive information about their social contacts and movements is totally unacceptable in a free society.

I am looking forward to seeing Germany fight side-by-side with human rights defenders in the future on essential policies.“

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The rules on political advertising proposed today by the Commission fail to stop the manipulation of elections by way of personalised targeting, criticises Patrick Breyer, the LIBE Committee‘s rapporteur for the Digital Services Act. Exceptions in the proposed rules would allow the Internet giants to keep using opt-in clauses, warns Breyer:

„The Commission fails to heed the LIBE Committee‘s call for banning the personalised targeting of political messages. The personalised manipulation of elections and referendums by exploiting the user‘s individual preferences and fears is a special class of online threat because it influences the core mechanisms that enable the functioning of our democratic society. Has the Commission forgotten about Cambridge Analytica and the surprise election of Trump for President? The integrity of elections and referendums is of general interest and cannot be subject to individual choices. The targeting of individuals based on their personality, including their behaviour, needs to be banned!“

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