CPDP Panel Photo: Isabelle Pérignon isabelle (European Commission), Linn Høgåsen (Forbrukerrådet), Felix H. (Mastodon) and Vid Logar (independent expert)
Article Panoptykon at CPDP 2026: Fair, sovereign and authentically personalised. A benchmark for digital services made in Europe Panoptykon will be present at the CPDP conference in Brussels this season with a panel on digital fairness and consumer empowerment. Panoptykon’s president Katarzyna Szymielewicz will lead the discussion featuring DG Justice and Norwegian Consumer Council. Text
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Report ‘Democracy on Wiretap’ Report Spyware today is one of the most significant threats to democracy, human rights, and cybersecurity in the European Union and worldwide. Text
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Article DSA vs. Reality: Are children safer online? What needs to be done to make social media a safer space for people of all ages? Text
Article New data protection regulation: the way ahead and possible changes, 29th Chaos Communication Congress (29C3) [VIDEO] Why do we need the data protection reform? How to protect right to personal data in new digital age? Could new, more harmonized law lead to better and more up-to-date protection? Katarzyna Szymielewicz (Panoptykon Foundation), Kirsten Fiedler (European Digital Rights) and Jan Albrecht (member of… Text
Report Data Retention in Poland: The issue and the Fight This paper is aims to give a brief overview of the following issues: (i) Polish data retention regime and its drawbacks; (ii) the use of data retention in practice and available data on the subject; (iii) campaign run by the Panoptykon Foundation over last two years; and (iv) political shifts that… Text
Article ACTA, European Realpolitik, and Polish Society Poland has a history of interesting revolutions, including its famous, peaceful transition in 1989. No one, however, reasonably expected that the country would become the hub of a very unusual, civic revolt: a grassroots, non-partisan—some even say “cultural”—movement against the Anti-… Text
Article How many times did Polish authorities reach out for our private telecommunications data in 2011? How many times did the public institutions reach out for the data concerning our telecommunication activities (dial records, etc.) in 2011? Over 1,85 million! Text
Article Fight against data retention directive: where are we?, 27th Chaos Communication Congress (27C3) [VIDEO] Five years ago data retention directive was adopted, introducing mandatory retention of the telecommunications of all citizens and resident of European Union. Since that time privacy movement against data retention in many European states has risen, national constitutional courts in Romania, Czech… Text
Article Panoptykon looks for the rationale behind the blanket data retention On 9 and 10 November 2010 the representatives of the EDRi-member Panoptykon Foundation met with the representatives of the European Commission in order to discuss the evaluation of the Data Retention Directive (DRD) and the rationale behind the regime of blanket data retention. Text