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Huawei has 2,400 employees in Düsseldorf. Inside there is a quasi-military esprit de corps, according to ex-employees.

Former employees accuse Huawei of discrimination. How massively the company interferes in their private lives and how it keeps its staff in line is revealed by internal documents and covert audio recordings that netzpolitik.org and the media partners of The Signals Network have analysed.

Competition scholar Dina Srinivasan looks at how Google dominates online ad exchanges. In an interview with netzpolitik.org, she explains why the tech giant has conflicts of interest that need to be managed.

In Russia, the news from the disinformation network serves the Kremlin's political goals.

For years, alleged news portals from Europe have been disseminating Russian propaganda. netzpolitik.org and WELT have now uncovered a network that is supposed to make lies in Russian media more credible. There are connections to the secret service.

The Google News Initiative writes cheques to media around the globe, including pro-regime newspapers in countries under autocratic rule – a move that baffles human rights advocates.

Almost 200 universities and research institutes in Germany currently do not have access to journals published by the largest scientific publisher, Elsevier. Instead of negotiating a switch to Open Access, however, Elsevier prefers to fight shadow libraries that make the contractless situation more bearable for researchers.

TikTok user Lianna Riedel Frank in her room

TikTok says it is for users 13 years and older. But insiders report, the video-sharing-app instructed content moderators not to block children on the platform. Conspicuous videos were escalated to a team in Beijing instead.

An investigation by netzpolitik.org shows the potential for abuse of PimEyes, a free search engine for 900 million faces. Whoever’s photos have been published on the Internet could already be part of their database.

The European Parliament has developed an app called iVote for remote voting during the pandemic. But left-wing MEPs are angry that it only works on Apple devices.

Illustrationen von zwei Menschen am Esstisch, neben ihnen ihre Telefone

Stalkerware is software designed to run on your smartphone, keep tabs on everything you do and report it back to whoever decided to spy on the intimate details of your life. This is a crime in most countries, but the apps are hard to find. Security researchers are working to change that.

Much of the funding of projects for the technical implementation of digital freedoms is threatened by the Trump Government. It is now time for Germany and Europe to step into the breach and provide adequate and sustainable funding for the development ecosystem. A commentary.

The European Commission wants to make Corona-tracing apps work across borders ahead of the summer holidays. But the French app has been excluded.

This photo from Oberhausen was sent to netzpolitik.org by an allegedly worried passer-by. We pixelated the QR code on the poster.

With a mixture of poster advertising and guerrilla marketing, criminals try to draw attention to a shop that sells drugs on the internet. The outdoor advertising company AWK and several media outlets are falling for this trick.

EU officials and diplomats lack a unified and secure way of talking to each other. The rise of telework in the Corona crisis shows a need to upgrade communications systems, says an internal report.

At the protests in the USA, fans of K-Pop appear as new political actors who mobilise against racism with collective actions on the Internet. What is happening and what does Korean pop have to do with Anonymous? A search for clues.

With public attention diverted by the corona crisis, Norway debates a law that would give its military intelligence agency sweeping powers to collect metadata from all cross-border communication.

Covid-19 contact tracing and data protection can go together. Johannes Abeler, Matthias Bäcker and Ulf Buermeyer lay out the details of how such a technology might work.

Acromax Media reports alleged copyright infringements to platforms such as Facebook and thus also makes journalistic content disappear from the Internet. The Hamburg-based company worked, amongst others for the Albanian governing party. Reporters Without Borders considers this an attempt to suppress independent journalism.

Worldwide, governments are increasingly shutting down internet access to disrupt protests, block illegal content or to censor journalism. We spoke to Berhan Taye from Access Now about these excessive actions.

While the EU Commission has asked staff to use Signal for messaging, the External Action Service is rolling out a bespoke app. But it refuses to share any details about it.

The Facebook-owned app has become a standard tool for international negotiations. Amid rising security concerns, EU experts now suggest a safer alternative. But the WhatsApp era is far from over.

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"Wolf culture": How Huawei controls its employees in Europe

Online advertising: „We just need the market to not be rigged“

Russian disinformation: The network of fake foreign media

Freedom of the Press: Google funds mouthpiece of Rwandan regime

News from Elsevier: No open access deal, but spyware against shadow libraries?

PimEyes: A Polish company is abolishing our anonymity

European Parliament: MEPs blast ‚Apple-only‘ voting app

Stalking via Smartphone: How security researchers are working to expose stalkerware on your phone

Tools for encryption and anonymity: Germany and Europe need to step up to their responsibility

L'App unique: France goes it alone on digital contact tracing

Guerilla marketing: German outdoor advertiser put up posters for online shop that sells drugs

Zoomed out: Pandemic „exposed vulnerabilities“ in EU systems

Collective Action: K-Pop Stans are boosting US-protests against racism

Data retention: Amidst pandemic, Norway moots powers for spy agency

Covid-19: Why is contact tracing useful?

Freedom of the press: A German company is responsible for the deletion of videos critical of the Albanian government

Interview on internet shutdowns: Jordan does not block, it throttles internet access

No more WhatsApp: EU diplomats to use mystery app for secure messaging

Hacks and spying: Is WhatsApp safe for diplomats?