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

The rapid speed at which digital technologies are becoming increasingly connected and penetrate all areas of life also requires constant adaptation of legal regulations. This development also extends to the fighting of crime. Despite existing regulations at the regional level (for example, the…

Government Spyware , Data Retention , Privacy and Data Protection , Surveillance , UN-Cybercrime-Convention

Even though its effects are very visible, the ePrivacy Directive is hardly known to the wider public. Cookie consent dialogues, familiar to every web user, are often associated with GDPR and widely complained about since 2018. However, they are really a consequence of the ePrivacy Directive's…

Data Retention , Privacy and Data Protection

The Austrian constitutional court decided on 11.12.2019 that the surveillance law that permits the use of spying software to read encrypted messages violates the fundamental right to respect for private life (article 8 ECHR), the fundamental right to data protection (§ 1 Austrian data protection…

Government Spyware , Data Retention , Surveillance Package , Privacy and Data Protection

Press mentions on this topic

Title Date Publication Publication details Type of publication Mentioned
08/11/2025 ORF Web yes
08/11/2025 diepresse.at Web yes
08/11/2025 ORF ORF III Aktuell am Abend Television yes
08/11/2025 kleinezeitung.at Web yes
08/11/2025 ORF ZIB1 Television yes
08/11/2025 Ö1 Abendjournal Radio yes
08/11/2025 ORF ORF III Aktuell Television yes
08/11/2025 Salzburger Nachrichten Web yes
08/11/2025 vienna.at Web yes
08/11/2025 noen.at Web yes

Recommended press stories on this topic

Title Date Publication Publication details Type of publication Mentioned
02/27/2018 Der Standard Web no
02/27/2018 news.orf.at Web no
02/26/2018 arstechnica Web no
02/25/2018 Vice Web no
02/22/2018 ZIB 2 Television no
02/19/2018 news.orf.at Web no
02/18/2018 fm4 Web no
02/18/2018 futurezone.at Web no
02/14/2018 fm4 Web no
02/11/2018 fm4 Web no