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In this category I post my own publiations as well as publications mentioning my work.

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Social Credit, Security, and Freedom

Chapter in Oliver Everling’s „Social Credit Rating Reputation und Vertrauen beurteilen“ [„Social Credit Rating – Reputation and Trust“] anthology on China’s Social Credit systems.

My chapter is „Social Credit, Sicherheit und Freiheit“ [Social Credit, Security, and Freedom]. Because I was asked not to use my usual amount of citations a wonderful colleague gave me the idea to use my blog as a way to, well, post-deliver my beloved citations. Well, and than I realised that I deleted the older versions of my article. The ones that contained my footnotes. It was a little reminder that everything, including trimness, has its dark sides…

Thanks to Oliver Everling and Jian Ren for the wondrful cooperation!

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#CryptoWars – The EU attacks encryption

A post by Austrian journalist Erich Moechel shed light on a dark topic: He revealed that the EU is using the Vienna shooting for an attack on privacy in the European Union.

German privacy and data protection groups criticised the EU’s cry for a digital master key for end-to-end encryption as an ultimate attack on privacy. They also criticised the attack on encryption as an international tendency and common tool of authoritarian countries.

The press releases (in German)

https://www.fiff.de/presse/pm-e2e-in-eu

https://gi.de/meldung/recht-auf-verschluesselung-statt-generalschluessel-fuer-chat-kommunikation

https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2020/cryptowars-2020

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Manipulative Capitalism

Dr. René Röderstein a.k.a. Flötenspieler interviewed me on surveillance, manipulation and society. The interview is in German.

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China Cybernetics Publications Translations

Article published „La Revue nouvelle“

The article „Soziale Kontrolle 4.0? Chinas Social Credit Systems“ (Social control 4.0? China’s Social Credit Systems), first published in „Blättern für deutsche und internationale Politik“ , was translated into French and published in „La Revue nouvelle“. The translator is Geneviève Warland.

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China Publications sustainibility talk

Weizenbaum Talk: Chinese Social Credit Systems as Examples of Digital Ratings

In her talk Weizenbaum Fellow Katika Kühnreich will speak about past and present attempts of (digital) social control or „social management” in China.

For more than a year China’s efforts to build so-called social credit systems have become a widely discussed topic. In her talk Katika Kühnreich will speak about past and present attempts of (digital) social control or „social management” in China and about political programs of and influences of China’s Communist Party. The Chinese government’s current plans to construct social credit systems and the inclusion of data collected by governmental agencies as well as private sectors are often criticized by Western media.

However, the foundations of the programs are rarely mentioned. By reflecting on the consequences of these programs and their central players the talk will highlight the role of a communist party as a leader in social regulation via datafication and its relationship with Confucianism. Taking a look at the past of China’s government programs, their implications as well as at the situation of social regulation in the West, this talk discusses important implications of datafication and quantification for social regulation and social control from a comparative perspective.