The Northern Protestant Church forces its parishes to use Microsoft services – and thereby it surrenders sensitive data about its members’ religious and civil activities to the US corporation. This sacrifice if data sovereignty is…

Germany’s two market-leading highstreet opticians, Apollo Optik and Fielmann, are awarded for selling Ray-Ban/Meta smart glasses. These spying glasses facilitate secret video and audio recording in everyday situations, normalising…

The EU’s legislative project, “Digital Omnibus” is set to erode EU data protection laws, and declare personal data as unowned property. The beneficiaries are Big Tech and the advertising industry: They would be able to appropriate…

The German Interior Ministry wants to turn the Tax ID into a universal personal identifier for all citizens – disguised as “residents register modernisation”. Via this unique identifier, government agencies could create…

Deutsche Telekom, the former state telecommunications provider, receives a preventive BigBrotherAward for their plan to merge with T‑Mobile US, their own American subsidiary. This deal – depending on the specifics – could cause…

The Teckids community criticises social media bans for young people: They protect nobody and do not solve any of the problems. Age checks require that even more personal data are disclosed, and this affects mostly those who want…