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

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10/24/2026 eureporter.co Web yes
10/23/2026 joyn.at Television yes
10/22/2026 Tagesspiegel Background Web yes
10/22/2026 derstandard.at Web yes
10/21/2026 Tiroler Tageszeitung Print yes
10/20/2026 Tiroler Tageszeitung Web yes
10/20/2026 Salzburger Nachrichten Web yes
10/20/2026 derstandard.at Web yes
10/20/2026 ORF ZIB 13 Uhr Television yes
10/20/2026 orf.at Web yes

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