An eventful and successful year: This was our anniversary year 2025.

Education , Government Spyware , Privacy and Data Protection , Digital Euro - Right to Cash , eID , Face Recognition , IT-Security , AI , Net Neutrality , Transparency/Open Government , UN-Cybercrime-Convention , Surveillance

Transparency for Europe’s digital identity. According to the EU’s plans, digital identity is to become a central part of our lives and our everyday online activities.

Privacy and Data Protection , eID , IT-Security , Transparency/Open Government

eID

Under the banner of “simplification,” the European Commission plans to revise core pieces of digital protection: from data protection to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. What sounds like cutting red tape could, in reality, erode Europe’s digital safeguards. Instead of clarity and strategic…

eID , IT-Security , AI

Data protection is the foundation of trustworthy digital public infrastructure — we contribute with our new e-learning. “Privacy in Digital Public Infrastructures” dives into the interplay of data protection and public digital infrastructure.

Education , Privacy and Data Protection , eID , IT-Security , Surveillance

eID

An eventful and successful year: that was 2024 in network policy.

Education , Government Spyware , Privacy and Data Protection , Digital Euro - Right to Cash , eID , Face Recognition , Internal , IT-Security , AI , Net Neutrality , Platform Regulation , Rule of Law , Transparency/Open Government , Surveillance , UN-Cybercrime-Convention , Whistleblowing

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We are constantly fighting for user rights and protection in the upcoming eID Wallet. But the latest draft of implementing acts leaves us torn once again. On the one side the commission adapted important safeguards that we recently demanded in an open letter but at the same time bringing back…

eID

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Health, finances, online behaviour: Digital IDs are poised to become an integral part of very sensitive aspects of our lives. Together with an international coalition we make it clear: Citizens will put no trust in the European Digital Identity Wallet without transparency and users being in control…

eID

After committing to protect users from excessive data requests in the European eID, the European Commission undermines this important improvement only two weeks later with a legal sleight of hand.

eID

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01/21/2026 ö3 Nachrichten Radio yes
01/21/2026 OE24 Web yes
01/21/2026 help.orf.at Other yes
01/21/2026 courthousenews.com Web yes
01/21/2026 kleinezeitung.at Web yes

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