A sweeping change to Austria's administrative law would let authorities issue binding decisions with no human ever reviewing the outcome, using AI Systems. We've sent an open letter to parliament, and we want to know if any other European country is heading the same way.

AI , Rule of Law

A photo taken at a protest, an automated comparison with a database containing more than 600,000 faces, and a criminal investigation targeting an innocent person. We filed a complaint, and the DSB ruled that the police's actions were unlawful. The significance of this decision reaches far beyond…

AI , Face Recognition

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

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

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

A threat to privacy and democracy. Biometric real-time surveillance systems create an infrastructure of constant control and not only threaten fundamental rights such as data protection and privacy. Despite a general EU ban, exceptions open the door to far-reaching intrusion. Austria must set a good…

AI , Surveillance

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08/02/2026 Vorarlberg Online Web yes
08/02/2026 heute.at Web yes
08/02/2026 orf.at Web yes
08/01/2026 Profil Seite 14-17 Print yes
07/31/2026 Die Presse S. 8 Print yes
07/31/2026 schwulissimo.de Web yes
07/31/2026 Ö3 Nachrichten Radio yes
07/30/2026 Joyn Television yes
07/30/2026 derstandard.at Web yes
07/30/2026 ggg.at Web yes

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