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.

IT-Security

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

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

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

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

The fundamental rights NGO epicenter.works reported a critical security vulnerability in the Epidemiological Reporting System (EMS) and was prosecuted as a result. The case shows the fundamental flaws in Austria's approach to IT security.

IT-Security

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Title Date Publication Publication details Type of publication Mentioned
10/25/2025 OE24 Web yes
10/25/2025 Ö1 Mittagsjournal Radio yes
10/25/2025 orf.at Web yes
10/24/2025 hrw.org Web yes
10/23/2025 Tiroler Tageszeitung S. 9 Print yes
10/23/2025 NVT S. 10 Print yes
10/23/2025 Salzburger Nachrichten S. 2 Print yes
10/23/2025 orf.at Web yes
10/23/2025 kosmo.at Web yes
10/23/2025 kurier.at Web yes

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