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

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Internal , Privacy and Data Protection , Net Neutrality , Government Spyware

For months, the Ministry of the Interior and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution have been calling for more options for monitoring messenger services such as Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram etc. By now, several supreme courts have categorised the interception of encrypted communication as a…

Government Spyware , Surveillance , Privacy and Data Protection

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

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
10/22/2025 ORF Aktuell Television yes
10/22/2025 Ö1 Mittagsjournal Radio yes
10/22/2025 ORF ZIB 13:00 Television yes
10/22/2025 bvz.at Web yes
10/22/2025 vienna.at Web yes
10/22/2025 noen.at Web yes
10/22/2025 Die Presse Web yes
10/22/2025 ORF ZIB 13:00 Television yes
10/22/2025 news.at Web yes
10/22/2025 meinbezirk.at Web yes

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