Panorama

What is sold as progress in public reports turns out to be a strategically staged fiction on closer inspection. Behind the official success figures is a system of tricks, cosmetic adjustments and statistical pocket player grips. The punctuality... [...]

A comprehensive data shadow grows in secret and interferes deeper with life than many people realize. People are increasingly becoming objects of reviews without being asked or exerting themselves. [...]

The establishment of totalitarian rule in the Soviet occupation zone and the later republic required the complex balancing act between ideological purity and pragmatic securing of power. What was portrayed to the outside world as a consistent overcoming of the fascist past revealed... [...]

There is a large, hardly perceived group of people whose lives are marked by a legal system that is considered fair to the outside world and bears deep cracks on the inside. These people are not in the light... [...]

The ongoing discussion about privacy in the global data network is often dominated by the fear of constant threat. However, this one-sided approach misjudges the fundamental mechanisms that make modern digital coexistence possible in the first place. It needs... [...]

Anonymity is a state deeply rooted in human existence and plays a central role in the development of societies, legal systems and individual freedoms. It is the ability to act, opinions... [...]

The right to negotiate in Sorbian language is a significant symbol of the cultural and linguistic recognition of the Sorbs in Germany. This right is clearly enshrined in the relevant laws and puts the... [...]