The German Pirate Party (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland; short: Piraten, "Pirates") is a political party in Germany, based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet.
The party opposes the dismantlement of civil rights in telephony and on the Internet, in particular the European data retention policies and Germany's new Internet censorship law called Zugangserschwerungsgesetz. It also opposes artificial monopolies and various measures of surveil...
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The German Pirate Party (German: Piratenpartei Deutschland; short: Piraten, "Pirates") is a political party in Germany, based on the model of the Swedish Piratpartiet.
The party opposes the dismantlement of civil rights in telephony and on the Internet, in particular the European data retention policies and Germany's new Internet censorship law called Zugangserschwerungsgesetz. It also opposes artificial monopolies and various measures of surveillance of citizens.
The party favors the civil right to information privacy and reforms of copyright, education, computer science and genetic patents.
It promotes in particular an enhanced transparency of government by implementing open source governance and providing for APIs to allow for electronic inspection and control of government operations by the citizen.
The party was founded on September 10, 2006. It received 229,117 votes in the 2009 European Parliament election, which was 0.9%, but not enough (at least 5%) for a seat. The number of...
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