Dr. Patrick Breyer is a member of the European Parliament of the Pirate Party Germany and the European Pirate Party since 2019. From May 2012 to June 2019, the lawyer and judge was a member of the Pirate Party in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament. As a digital freedom fighter, he is committed to defending human rights in the age of the digital revolution in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Legal Affairs Committee. His political work is committed to facilitate freedom and self-determination for all people in a world without mass surveillance.