The Panoptykon Foundation

The Panoptykon Foundation has been keeping an eye on the state and companies since 2009. We check how they use your data, expose abuses, and fight for laws protecting freedom and privacy. We show how to live consciously in the digital world. If you are: a lawyer, data analyst, IT specialist, teacher, parent or simply a person who wants to better understand the risks associated with new technologies and protect your privacy, join the followers of our company page.

>>OUR ACTIVITIES:<< MORE DISCLOSURE: We have collected a number of information to shed light on: --> how services use new technologies and what offices do with citizens' data, --> how and who is tracked by advertising on the Internet. Thanks to requests for public information and court battles, we revealed, for example: --> the principles of profiling the unemployed, --> how monitoring works at railway stations, and how often the Internal Security Agency uses the database of passport photos. BETTER LAW Thanks to us: --> bank customers were granted the right to explain their credit decisions, --> employment offices stopped using the harmful algorithm for profiling the unemployed. We helped stop many dangerous initiatives, e.g.: --> total monitoring in Krakow, --> further ideas for blocking the Internet, --> general property lustration. PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE From our materials you will learn, for example: --> how we evaluate various applications, e.g. "Home Quarantine", ProtegoSafe or applications monitoring the smog level or menstrual cycle, --> how to start taking care of your privacy, --> how to use from the rights granted by the GDPR. We also share knowledge with: --> teachers (Cyfrowa Wyprawka portal and workshops), --> journalists (trainings and guides, e.g. on disinformation), --> social organizations (workshops and guides).