On October 18, 2024, the German government passed its new security package, which provides for increased surveillance and comprehensive measures against terrorism and violent crime. The legislative initiative has met… Read More »The new German Security Package: Digital Surveillance and Data Protection
Social media has fundamentally changed how news is produced, disseminated, and consumed. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram play a central role in the modern news landscape and have significantly… Read More »Faster, Louder, Less Secure? Social Media and the modern News Cycle
In an increasingly digitalised world, the topic of whistleblowing is becoming more explosive. Whistleblowing is the act by which individuals, often employees of a company or government agency, bring non-public… Read More »Whistleblowing in the Digital Era: The Courage to Tell the Truth
Free, Open Source Software (FOSS) has been playing an increasingly important role in the economy for decades, especially in the context of companies that offer digital services. For example, the… Read More »Free software in Administrations
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been in force in the European Union, Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway for more than 4 years. Since then, this regulation has set a… Read More »European Courts increasingly insist on Compliance with the GDPR
Our daily life in the digital space is determined by American and increasingly Asian companies and platforms. So what about European digital independence and European sovereignty? Do we need more… Read More »European Digital Sovereignty
On 11 May this year, the European Commission published a draft law “on the protection of children”. In fact, behind this vague wording lies the plan to make internet platforms… Read More »EU Chat-Control & Upload-Filter
We specify open standards for public IT projects. Development orders are usually requested as open source, the corresponding software is principally made public. Coalition Agreement, 24.11.2021, p. 15 The new… Read More »Habemus Coalition Agreement: The New German Government and Open Source
Privacy is generally perceived as a problem on individual level, although it has an important, often neglected social component. We highlight the central issues and how they can be solved.
On September 26, 2021, a new Bundestag (German Federal Parliament) will be elected for the 20th time since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. Regardless of the outcome… Read More »Microtargeting: Influence on democratic elections
