The Digital Networks Act (DNA) will decide how Europeans use the internet for the next decade. The first draft in the European Parliament reads like a wish list of a handful of big telecom companies. We explain what is at stake and how we can still turn this around.

Net Neutrality

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

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

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

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

For 12 years, major internet providers have been trying to get paid twice for their services under the guise of a “fair share debate”. This time, the focus is on Deutsche Telekom, which wants to introduce a data toll and is now demanding additional network charges from Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp,…

Net Neutrality

epicenter.works - the largest Austrian NGO for fundamental and human rights in the digital age - needs your help to survive the year.

Internal , Privacy and Data Protection , Net Neutrality , Government Spyware

Recent developments have raised serious questions about the impartiality and commitment to the interests of European citizens of European Commissioner Thierry Breton. Therefore, we expressed our deep concerns regarding his potential industry capture in a recent open letter to all Members of the…

Net Neutrality

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

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