This was 2023 from a digital rights perspective: We look back on an eventful year.

A few weeks ago we have filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority about the Passenger Name Record. Our aim is to overturn the directive, in other words to virtually abolish it. Four weeks ago the data protection authority has rejected our complaint, which we think is good news,…

Three weeks ago we officially lodged a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against the Passenger Name Record directive - we reported on it earlier this year. After only three weeks, we have now received the response from the data protection authority: The complaint was rejected.…

Together with our German partners from Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte, we are currently fighting to stop the collection of airline passenger data in Europe. To this end we just filed seven complaints in Austria with the Data Protection Authority regarding the practice of processing passenger data…

The base rate fallacy is the tendency to ignore base rates in the presence of specific, individuating information. Rather than integrating general information and statistics with information about an individual case, the mind tends to ignore the former and focus on the latter. This phenomenon is…

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According to the PNR Directive, which was adopted in 2016, all European member states must oblige airlines to forward passenger name records (PNR) to a central authority. In Austria, the Passenger Data Centre at the Federal Criminal Police Office has…

Press mentions on this topic

Title Date Publication Publication details Type of publication Mentioned
02/07/2024 derstandard.at Web yes
02/07/2024 ATV Aktuell Television yes
02/07/2024 PULS24 News Television yes
02/07/2024 derstandard.at Web yes
02/06/2024 FM4 Auf Laut Radio yes
02/06/2024 FM4 Web yes
02/05/2024 ORF Web yes
02/04/2024 ORF Magazin | Hohes Haus Television yes
01/31/2024 ORF ZIB & Information | Nationalrat Television yes
01/29/2024 ORF ZIB3 Web yes

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