December 2009
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Muss d'EU Parlament den SWIFT-Accord nach... →
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SWIFT Agreement between US and EU
Ok, the agreement passed the European Council thus it is believed to be signed. But Netzpolitik.org has more information on this and disseminates the news, that the agreement wasn’t actually signed which makes up for most of the confusion.
Personally I’m trying to gather more information on the subject in cooperation with international pirate parties in order to be able to make...
November 2009
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Do what you want cause a pirate is free (NSFW) →
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SWIFT: Why Europe's data should NOT be send to the... →
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http://www.piratenpartei.de/Pressemitteilung-091124... →
Not relevant for Luxembourg, but still quite shocking
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Secrecy revealed on SWIFT agreement
This post is based on a press release by the pirate party Germany, I will only present the main thoughts and the interested reader may read the original in German. [1]
Apparently the EU-commission and especially the commissar for the Interior Jacques Barrot are trying to push the planned SWIFT agreement [2] through the institutions by using uncommon methods. This agreement should allow...
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Surveillance 2.0 in Luxembourg
Last week Mr. Halsdorf, Minister of the Interior, declared, that the surveillance in Luxembourg was being extended to one more zone on the “route d’Arlon” and that the surveillance system Visupol was being re-conducted for one more year. Almost every youth organization of the national parties and the pirate party reacted to this statement by issuing press releases and the member...
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“It seems to limit you; when you’re working in an office, you’re a...”
– Jack Vance
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Act on ACTA
ACTA[1] is short for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement a treaty currently being negotiated by some countries and organizations, including the EU and the US. Apparently the US are pushing forward to achieve a consent on it by January 2010. Thus we have only little time left to act.
Leaked information on the content can be found at Wikileaks [2], at EDRI [3] and on the foundation for a free...
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“Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate,...”
– Johnny “Capt. Jack Sparrow” Depp
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Open access now!
We’ve waited too long and were paying too much, there are even in Luxembourg public or semi-public institutions developing software, gathering data and more which was paid partially or completely by public funding. In this article I will give some examples of data gathered and of software developed and will provide the proof that we would all benefit from open access to these elements.
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Telecom package passed the EU parliament
Apparently the only “pirate” currently seated in Brussels (until 1st December) is happy about the new legislation: ”To be honest, I never thought this would happen. It is not everything that we would have wanted in the best of worlds, and this is not the end of the fight for a free and open internet. But it is a much bigger step in the right direction than I would have dared to...