A photo taken at a protest, an automated comparison with a database containing more than 600,000 faces, and a criminal investigation targeting an innocent person. We filed a complaint, and the DSB ruled that the police's actions were unlawful. The significance of this decision reaches far beyond…

AI , Face Recognition

For more than five years we have been following the European Digital Identity Wallet. We have submitted comments, analysed technical drafts, coordinated civil society coalitions and fought for safeguards that would make Europe's digital identity infrastructure privacy-friendly by design.

In March,…

eID

When you pay digitally today, your transaction most likely goes through Visa, Mastercard, or PayPal. All US companies. All subject to the CLOUD Act, which lets American authorities compel them to hand over user data with little recourse for you or for European regulators.

Europe's digital payment…

Digital Euro - Right to Cash

Finding and reporting security vulnerabilities makes everyone safer. But in Austria, it can still get you prosecuted. Ethical hacking urgently needs legal protection and that’s why we need your experiences.

IT-Security

We took the floor once again as representatives of the umbrella association of critical shareholders at Deutsche Telekom's Annual General Meeting in Bonn. Our topic: Telekom is billing twice – and in doing so, is undermining the core principle of net neutrality.

Net Neutrality

When we first introduced WhoIdentifies.me, a simple yet previously unanswered question was at its core: Who accesses which data within the emerging eIDAS ecosystem; essentially a European equivalent of ID Austria? With the publication of our prototype, we are pleased to come significantly closer to…

eID

We have been watching the EU Digital Identity Wallet since day one – over 20 submissions, seven open letters, four and a half years of reading every draft and tracking every change. And the single most important thing we have learned: the Commission has no qualms about reversing protections it just…

eID

The European Commission’s new Digital Networks Act threatens to dismantle nearly a decade of net neutrality protections in Europe. What’s being pitched as a technical update could actually give politicians power over the open internet, create paid fast lanes, and weaken independent regulators.

Net Neutrality

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

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