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40 Years of German Privacy Movement

Why is there such a great awareness for data protection in Germany? What are the reasons for this? And why do we – as Digitalcourage – stand up for privacy? Rena Tangens about her personal motivation and the history of the privacy…

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Will Trade Civil Rights For Lentil Pottage: The “Tell Us All About You” Knowledge Society

Is it just a luxury problem to worry about surveillance? Why do people give up their basic liberties for a lentil dish?

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Fingerprinting for ID cards – what can be done? #NoFingerprintIDs

As of August 2, 2021, all new German ID cards will require citizens to provide two fingerprints upon application. This mandatory measure is not only unnecessary but disrespectful to all citizens. Act now!

Blanket data retention: biased study by the EU Commission

The EU Commission has hired a consulting company to conduct a study on mass retention of telephone and internet data. What we know of the contract makes us suspect that study will be biased.

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ePrivacy: Private data retention through the back door

The coucil of the EU is currently planning to abuse the upcoming ePrivacy regulation to facilitate blanket data retention. For this purpose, the judgement of the CJEU is deliberately misinterpreted.

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European Data Protection Day: Six organisations call for better privacy in communications!

The ePrivacy regulation aims to protect privacy in electronic communications. But lobby groups are sabotaging it and the Council of the EU is delaying its adoption. Six organisations from several European countries are calling for…

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Police Laws in Saxony: Czech, Polish and German Criticism on Plans for Facial Recognition in the Border Region

Together with our Czech partner organisation IURE and the Polish Panoptykon Foundation, we strongly criticize the planned preventive automatic facial recognition in the border region of the German federal state of Saxony, the…

Modern myth: Nothing to hide?

Anyone who is concerned with surveillance will hear this statement over and over again. Though dangerous and false, it is very persistent. And we are fed up with it. Ten points against the notion that you have “nothing to hide”.

Using Tails? Be careful with embedded metadata!

Embedded metadata can reveal who edited a document. We tested the Metadata Anonymization Tookit (MAT – included in Tails, a Linux version for anonymous communication) to see how such metadata can be removed. We found and reported…

English-speaking guests are welcome at this Friday’s BigBrotherAwards gala

At the 2016 BigBrotherAwards gala we will provide live interpretation into English for the first time.

Finland: Legalized Mass Surveillance on the Horizon?

Is surveillance getting worse in Finland? Nomi Byström, Executive Director of Electronic Frontier Finland on surveillance and data protection in Finland.

State of play of internet freedom in the Netherlands

A new Intelligence and Security Services act in the Netherlands will allow the state to tap chat messages, email messages and the websites you visited in bulk. Where is the freedom going? Text by Daphne van der Kroft from Bits of…

Swiss surveillance: the full monty

In recent years, security-obsessed politicians and officials have been busy putting into place surveillance mechanisms while ignoring or even denying and perverting the positive effects of digitisation. The following text shows…

Sigmar Gabriel’s SPD plans to reintroduce Telecommunications Data Retention in Germany

Wir veröffentlichen hier den Text, den Sebastian Lisken für das englischsprachige EDRi-gram über die aktuellen Vorhaben zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung in Deutschland geschrieben hat.

Charlie Hebdo Tragedy Must Not Be Used to Expand Surveillance

Dieser offene Brief ruft die politisch Verantwortlichen der Welt dazu auf, die Privatsphäre und die Menschenrechte gerade nach dem Attentat auf Charlie Hebdo zu schützen. Diesen Aufruf hat Digitalcourage gemeinsam mit vielen…

Surveillance in India

India is the most populous democracy in the world. And it is quite sophisticated when it comes to spying on its population. A personal account by Leena Simon.

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