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

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

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

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

This week, the final round of negotiations of the so called “UN Cybercrime Convention” has started. The content of the treaty seriously alarms us as a human rights NGO, so we once again travelled to New York to stop a potential agreement on this dangerous draft.

UN-Cybercrime-Convention , IT-Security , Privacy and Data Protection

For months, the Ministry of the Interior and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution have been calling for more options for monitoring messenger services such as Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram etc. By now, several supreme courts have categorised the interception of encrypted communication as a…

Government Spyware , Surveillance , Privacy and Data Protection

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

This letter on the European Health Data Space and the ELGA opt-out (Elektronische Gesundheitsakte – electronic health record) was sent to: Austrian Chancellor Nehammer, Vice-Chancellor Kogler, Minister of health Rauch, State Secretary for Digitization Tursky, the Austrian parliamentary party whip,…

Privacy and Data Protection

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