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
03/26/2025 OTS Web yes
03/25/2025 junge Welt Web yes
03/24/2025 Ö1 Mittagsjournal Radio yes
03/17/2025 Netzpolitik.org Web yes
03/06/2025 OTS Web yes
03/06/2025 ORF.at Web yes
03/04/2025 Richtig & Falsch Der Podcast für Politische Bildung Podcast yes
02/28/2025 Netzpolitik.org Web yes
02/27/2025 Logbuch:Netzpolitik Podcast yes
02/26/2025 ORF ZIB Magazin Television yes

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01/12/2017 Telecompaper Web no
01/04/2017 futurezone.at Web no
12/19/2016 Netzpolitik.org Web no
12/01/2016 Ö1 Morgenjournal Radio no
04/01/2016 Werkstatt-Blatt Print no
01/28/2016 Der Standard Print no
01/27/2016 Wiener Zeitung Print no
01/27/2016 Wiener Zeitung Print no
07/04/2015 Der Standard Print no
06/01/2015 Die Zeit Web no