This was 2023 from a digital rights perspective: We look back on an eventful year.

Government Spyware , Chat Control , Privacy and Data Protection , Digital Euro - Right to Cash , eID , Net Neutrality , Platform Regulation , PNR , Transparency/Open Government , Surveillance , UN-Cybercrime-Convention , Data Retention , Whistleblowing

The rapid speed at which digital technologies are becoming increasingly connected and penetrate all areas of life also requires constant adaptation of legal regulations. This development also extends to the fighting of crime. Despite existing regulations at the regional level (for example, the…

Government Spyware , Data Retention , Privacy and Data Protection , Surveillance , UN-Cybercrime-Convention

Even though its effects are very visible, the ePrivacy Directive is hardly known to the wider public. Cookie consent dialogues, familiar to every web user, are often associated with GDPR and widely complained about since 2018. However, they are really a consequence of the ePrivacy Directive's…

Data Retention , Privacy and Data Protection

The Austrian constitutional court decided on 11.12.2019 that the surveillance law that permits the use of spying software to read encrypted messages violates the fundamental right to respect for private life (article 8 ECHR), the fundamental right to data protection (§ 1 Austrian data protection…

Government Spyware , Data Retention , Surveillance Package , Privacy and Data Protection

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11/11/2025 Youtube heise c't Web yes
11/09/2025 netz-trends.de Web yes
11/07/2025 Die Presse S. 8 Print yes
11/06/2025 euobserver.com Web yes
11/06/2025 Die Presse Web yes
10/31/2025 apc.org Web yes
10/29/2025 Der Standard S. 7 Print yes
10/29/2025 ORF ZIB2 Television yes
10/28/2025 Kurier S. 6 Print yes
10/28/2025 derstandard.at Web yes

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