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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