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

A few weeks ago we have filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority about the Passenger Name Record. Our aim is to overturn the directive, in other words to virtually abolish it. Four weeks ago the data protection authority has rejected our complaint, which we think is good news,…

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Three weeks ago we officially lodged a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against the Passenger Name Record directive - we reported on it earlier this year. After only three weeks, we have now received the response from the data protection authority: The complaint was rejected.…

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Together with our German partners from Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, we are currently fighting to stop the collection of airline passenger data in Europe. To this end we just filed seven complaints in Austria with the Data Protection Authority regarding the practice of processing passenger data…

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The base rate fallacy is the tendency to ignore base rates in the presence of specific, individuating information. Rather than integrating general information and statistics with information about an individual case, the mind tends to ignore the former and focus on the latter. This phenomenon is…

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Read the German version of the article here.

 

According to the PNR Directive, which was adopted in 2016, all European member states must oblige airlines to forward passenger name records (PNR) to a central authority. In Austria, the Passenger Data Centre at the Federal Criminal Police Office has…

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Press mentions on this topic

Title Date Publication Publication details Type of publication Mentioned
09/12/2026 Ö1 Help Web yes
09/11/2026 ORF 01:38:00 Television yes
09/05/2026 boerse-express.com Web yes
09/04/2026 Der Standard S. 12 Print yes
09/04/2026 ad-hoc-news.de Web yes
09/03/2026 ORF ZIB2 Television yes
09/03/2026 ORF ORF III Aktuell Television yes
09/03/2026 kronehit.at Web yes
09/03/2026 Ö3 Nachrichten Radio yes
09/03/2026 ORF ZIB 13:00 Television yes

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