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Article European Court of Human Rights: secret surveillance in Poland violates citizens’ privacy rights According to the precedent judgment announced today by the European Court of Human Rights, the operational-control regime, the retention of communications data, and the secret-surveillance regime under the Anti-Terrorism Act in Poland violate the right to privacy. The activists from Poland’s… Text
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Article Panoptykon Foundation challenges the data retention regime in Poland: Telecom companies requested to delete activists’ data Panoptykon Foundation supports activists and attorney-at-law Artur Kula to demand four biggest telecom companies in Poland to delete data stored for the purpose of law enforcement in the last 12 months. They want to challenge the current unlawful data retention regime in Poland. Text
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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
SIN vs Facebook lead visual presenting moderation algorithms at work Article 6 years in court fighting against arbitrary censorship. What about user empowerment promised by the DSA? In March 2024, the District Court in Warsaw ruled that Meta Ireland Inc. must restore the pages and content published by the Polish CSO, Civil Drug Policy Initiative (SIN), on Instagram and Facebook. Text
Article New privacy policy We published a new version of our Privacy Policy. 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 Anxious about your health? Facebook won’t let you forget There is little point in telling Facebook which posts you do not want to see – it will not listen. Text
Article Polish Senate calls Pegasus illegal and demands scrutiny over secret services The Senate of Poland concluded its investigation on the use of Pegasus by Polish secret services to spy on ia. opposition politicians and unapologetic public persons. They declared that Pegasus should be considered illegal in Poland and the secret services should be put under strict and independent… Text
VLOP campaign key image 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 One Act to Rule Them All We enter the final stage of the negotiations of the AI Act – the first comprehensive law regulating the development and implementation of artificial intelligence. The lack of transparency of the trilogue and intense corporate are reasons to worry. But fortunately – thanks to the efforts of civil… Text
Article DSA: Polish translation needs correction. Transparency rules for recommender systems do apply to smaller platforms as well We found an essential mistake in the Polish official translation of the Article 27 of Digital Services Act: Text