The EU says it wants to protect children online, but its KIDS Act would make everyone prove their age or identity to use large parts of the internet. We show who gets locked out, why open platforms like Mastodon may not survive it and what would actually protect kids instead.

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…

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,…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…