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| 2025 |
Pirate Party
Adéla Šípová left the Pirate Party, though she remains a supporter.
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| 2024 | EFF's 'How to Fix the Internet' podcast won a 2024 Anthem Award, recognizing its impactful content related to digital rights and internet policy. |
| 2024 | Party maintains a strong presence with 3.87% of votes, holding 96 seats and ranking 6th in national elections. |
| 2024 | Czech Pirate Party ran 5 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 21,107 votes (2.66%), placing 8th and winning 1 seat. |
| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori left the Pirate Party and joined the LSAP (Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party)
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Pirate Party loses all national elected representatives in parliamentary election
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Patrick Breyer concluded his term as MEP, marking the end of the Pirate Party's national elected representation in the European Parliament.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Markéta Gregorová remains the sole Pirate Party MEP after the EU elections.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Marcel Kolaja and Mikuláš Peksa complete their terms as MEPs for the Czech Republic Pirate Party.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Lukáš Wagenknecht's Senate term for Prague 8 ends.
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| 2024 |
Pirate Party
Jan Lipavsky leaves the Pirate Party when the party exits the government.
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| November 2024 | Zdeněk Hřib elected as party leader. |
| September 2024 | The party secured 3 out of 675 seats in regional councils during the September elections. |
| September 2024 | Left the governing coalition after Ivan Bartoš was dismissed as regional development minister. |
| June 9 2024 |
Pirate Party
European Parliament elections held across multiple countries for the Pirate Party, with participation in France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, and Sweden. Despite participation, no seats were won in these countries.
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| 2023 | Pirate Party UK publicly opposed the Online Safety Act 2023, criticizing its potential for mass surveillance and undermining private conversations, encryption, and digital privacy rights. |
| 2023 |
Pirate Party
Ben Polidori began serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for the North region of Luxembourg
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| December 14 2023 | The Electoral Commission approved the application to re-register the Pirate Party UK. |
| December 14 2023 | Received approval from the Electoral Commission and re-launched the party, committing to support transgender rights. |
| August 10 2023 | Submitted an application to the Electoral Commission to restart the party. |
| March 11 2023 | Lucy Maber becomes leader of the Pirate Party UK. |
| 2022 | Experienced a slight electoral decline, winning 79 seats with 6.62% of votes, but maintaining a significant presence in local elections. |
| 2022 | The party maintained its strong performance with 4,180,324 votes (17.7%), positioning itself as the 3rd largest party and continuing in a coalition government. |
| 2022 | Czech Pirate Party ran 8 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 28,302 votes (2.54%), placing 9th. |
| 2022 |
Genetic privacy
A comprehensive study by Zhiyu Wan et al. systematically categorized genetic privacy safeguards into legal and technical approaches.
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| 2022 |
Adversarial stylometry
Researchers identified DS-PAN and Mutant-X as the state-of-the-art tools for automated obfuscation in adversarial stylometry.
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| December 2022 | EFF joined 56 other digital advocacy organizations in calling for internet infrastructure providers to cease content policing of websites they service. |
| 2021 | Vladimír Naxera published a scholarly article examining the Czech Pirate Party's communication strategies around corruption, exploring their approach to political messaging. |
| 2021 | The party contested the Czech parliamentary election as part of the Pirates and Mayors alliance, gaining 37 seats (four Pirate MPs) and joining the governing Cabinet of Petr Fiala with Spolu. |
| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Arndís Anna Kristínardóttir Gunnarsdóttir elected as MP for Reykjavík South
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| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Andrés Ingi Jónsson becomes a member of the Pirate Party
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| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Gísli Rafn Ólafsson elected as MP for Southwest
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| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Jan Lipavský becomes Foreign Affairs minister, though he later leaves the Pirates in 2024.
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| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Klára Kocmanová becomes MP for Central Bohemia.
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| 2021 |
Pirate Party
Ivan Bartoš becomes MP for Ústí nad Labem and Minister of Regional Development.
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| 2020 |
Homomorphic encryption
Baiyu Li and Daniele Micciancio published an article discussing passive attacks against the CKKS homomorphic encryption scheme, demonstrating potential vulnerabilities in the IND-CPA definition and testing attacks on four major homomorphic encryption libraries (HEAAN, SEAL, HElib and PALISADE).
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| 2020 | Czech Pirate Party ran 13 candidates in Senate elections, receiving 36,717 votes (3.69%) in the first round, and 18,804 votes (4.61%) in the second round, placing 6th and 7th, and winning 1 seat. |
| 2020 | Adéla Šípová and David Smoljak were elected to the Senate of the Czech Republic. |
| 2020 | Researcher P. Maškarinec published an academic paper in the journal Politics analyzing the Czech Pirate Party's electoral success and its unique positioning across traditional political spectrums. |
| 2020 | Significant electoral breakthrough, dramatically increasing vote share to 14.67%, winning 94 seats and rising to 2nd position in national elections. |
| 2020 |
Pirate Party
Adéla Šípová becomes a Senator for Kladno, representing the Pirate Party.
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| November 9 2020 | Harley Faggetter's leadership period ends. |
| November 9 2020 | The Pirate Party UK was de-registered as a political party by the Electoral Commission. |
| October 2020 | Gained 99 out of 675 seats in regional councils with 14.67% of the vote. |
| October 7 2020 | Announced the results of a vote to dissolve the party, with 73% voting in favor (33 Yes, 9 No, 3 Abstain). |
| October 7 2020 | The Pirate Party UK announced its decision to dissolve. |
| July 2020 |
Genetic privacy
Florida passes House Bill 1189, a DNA privacy law that prohibits insurers from using genetic data.
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| January 2020 | Ivan Bartoš re-elected as party leader. |
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