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By Peter Anthony Tariche at 5:38PM

Pirate Party in Germany Protests Airport Body Scanners

Here's the Pirate Party platform from Germany:

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 copyrighteducationcomputer 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.

YAL doesn't support political parties, but this support for personal privacy is certainly impressive.  Source: Wikipedia.