Civil Rights – Pirate Parties International

Reviewing the 2026 Tübingen Digital Freedom Days

KG July 18, 2026 July 20, 2026

We previously wrote about the Tübingen Digital Freedom Days in Germany, a conference held from 15 to 17 May 2026, the fifth such conference. Several Pirates participated in this conference and have asked us to provide an update about the speeches that were made there. The conference included more than 50 talks and workshops. About the 2026 Tübingen Digital Freedom Days Digital empowerment in uncertain times Borys Sobieski, a former chair of Piratenpartei Deutschland, presented Inclusion in Digital Projects. His practical talk explained how accessibility is often overlooked in open-source projects and showed how relatively simple changes can make digital projects easier for more people to use. Eva Wolfangel, an …

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EU Chat Control

KG July 13, 2026 July 14, 2026

Licking the envelope closed is now mandatory! The old Dutch ‘briefgeheim’ (confidential letter) meant the postal service (and by analogy social media platforms) could not open and read letters. But there were conditions. Postal cards like those that you sent from your holiday location were plain, and openly readable. Those were exempt. That is the current situation for messages online now that the EU has again weakened the ePrivacy directive. The encripted messages that we send are confidential, the others are potentially accessible to anyone. We have to lick the envelope closed, use encryption, for our personal communication to have them private again. As a result of the void in …