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The times when data protection was limited to subsequently resolving the consequences of technological developments have long been a thing of the past. It is not enough to rely on reactive measures, such as... [...]

The depressing feeling arises that social networks are no longer just places of free exchange between citizens, but also test fields of state influence in which secret services have their fingers deep in the game. Where used to be people... [...]

Netzneutralität ist keine technische Nebensache, sondern eine Voraussetzung für freien Zugang zu Informationen. Sobald staatliche Stellen oder private Netzwerkunternehmen beeinflussen, welche Nachrichten sichtbar bleiben, welche Beiträge verbreitet und welche Auffassungen an den Rand gedrängt werden,… [...]

Die Staatssicherheit behandelte öffentliche Kritik unter Sorben häufig nicht als politischen Widerspruch, sondern als feindliche Tätigkeit. Ein anonymer Briefschreiber im Kreis Kamenz, ein Müllermeister mit Forderungen nach mehr sorbischer Selbstständigkeit, katholische Akademiker und Geistliche gerieten… [...]

The state emphasizes with emphasis that it wants nothing to do with the German Empire and has detached itself from every authoritarian tradition. But of all things, the Emigrants' Protection Act shows that this distance is a facade... [...]

Such an IT mercenary is nothing more than the state's cold, cynical betrayal of its own rules, a creeping state coup in the digital space, executed with a keyboard instead of tanks. A state that hacks hackers to... [...]

In authoritarian states, cadaver obedience is one of the darkest forms of state action. Here, officials become compliant tools of an authority to which they serve unconditionally without their own responsibility or the ethical foundations of their actions. [...]

The depressing feeling arises that something is deeply crooked in the structure of this country when, of all things, that agreement that was celebrated as the foundation of German unity is treated like an annoying marginal note today. The... [...]