Quintessenz

{{short description|Austrian civil liberties advocacy organization}}

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Quintessenz (German for "quintessence") is a civil liberties advocacy organization based in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.

Founded in 1994, Quintessenz works on Internet and on-line liberty issues in co-operation with other civil liberties advocates around the world.

In 1999 Erich Moechel represented Quintessenz as a speaker at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy 99 Conference in Washington DC. {{cite news|last1=McCullagh |first1=Declan |title=Big Brother Taps the Bitstream |url=https://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18987.html |access-date=24 Jul 2014 |work=Wired News |date=7 April 1999 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990508233634/http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18987.html |archive-date=May 8, 1999 }}

Quintessenz is a co-organizer of the Austrian version of the Big Brother Awards and a member of European Digital Rights.