A battle for freedom and privacy is being fought right now. We are living under constant surveillance. Everything we do is recorded, analyzed and sold. This way, the state and big business can make decisions about us – and for us.

We are unhappy with this arrangement. We want new technologies to serve people. We want freedom. We want privacy. This is what we are fighting for.

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We are keeping an eye on the state and tech corporations. We fight for laws to protect people’s freedom and privacy. We empower people to live consciously in the digital world.

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Article Successful advocacy: the government declares no further extension of data retention obligation Data retention obligation will not be further extended in Polish law on electronic communication. However, the current, unlawful scope of telecommunication data retention remains unchanged. Our advocacy effort proved successful. Text
Article Win against Facebook. Giant not allowed to censor content at will By blocking the accounts and groups of Społeczna Inicjatywa Narkopolityki (SIN, the Civil Society Drug Policy Initiative), Meta has infringed on the organization’s personal rights. On Wednesday, a Polish court issued a watershed decision in a case supported by the Panoptykon Foundation, thereby… Text
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Article Scroll more, sleep less. A Black Mirror-inspired truck in Warsaw advertises a disturbing social network... that doesn’t exist “Our algorithm will suck you in”, “Scroll more, sleep less”. These are slogans from a “new, revolutionary social platform” Vlop!, being advertised on a mysterious, Black Mirror-like LED truck, cruising the Polish capital city. In reality, the platform does not exist, and was made up as part of a… Text
Article Hide and Seek: Polish DPA agrees that people should be able to access their advertising profiles, but there’s no way to do so Following Panoptykon’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) complaint against one of the biggest Polish news website, Interia.pl – the Polish Data Protection Authority has confirmed that online publishers should give users access to their advertising profiles generated for the purposes of… Text

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