The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software Tangles from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell the public whether they also bought the intrusive geolocation tracking add-on Webloc, which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.
Public record on the €900k Tangles contract:
https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/17316-2025
German-lang article by
@suka_hiroakiAndreas Proschofsky:
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000309258/innenministerium-nutzt-ueberwachungssoftware-von-zwielichtiger-firma-will-nicht-darueber-reden
Summary on the Citizen Lab site:
https://citizenlab.ca/austrian-interior-ministry-using-cobwebs-surveillance-software/