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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Over 70 countries have signed the new UN Cybercrime Convention in Hanoi. But behind the stated objective of combating cybercrime lies a treaty that enables far-reaching surveillance, provides little protection for human rights and puts journalists, activists and critical voices at risk – very much…

UN-Cybercrime-Convention

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

Despite its growing responsibilities, the Austrian Data Protection Authority continues to be crippled by budget cuts – epicenter.works and noyb are therefore filing a complaint with the European Commission.

Privacy and Data Protection , Rule of Law , IT-Security

Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barbara van Schewick have filed a complaint against Deutsche Telekom with Germany’s telecom regulator Bundesnetzagentur. The complaint aims to end Deutsche Telekom's…

Net Neutrality

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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12/09/2025 diepresse.at S. 4 Print yes
12/09/2025 Kleine Zeitung Print yes

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