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Talk at the D.A.I. in Tübingen
Schlagwort: social control
Unter dem Titel „Macht 4.0: Einfluss und Kontrolle der Sozialen Medien“ findet am 28. Februar eine hybride Veranstaltung am D.A.I. in Tübingen und im Netz statt[…]
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Kulturtipps fürs neue Jahr
Ein Kultur- und paar Lesetipps für 2023, wobei Lesen und Kultur zu trennen natürlich nicht ganz korrekt ist.
As protests are erupting in China Westerners can be reminded that China is not a quiet country. In different Chinese cities people marched organised against the government policies.
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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!
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
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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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WOZ Interview
Merièm Strupler interviewed me for the Swiss weekly WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung. The interview is on social scoring systems in China, Corona and Corona apps, and the social impact of digitalization.
Read the interview (in German) here: https://www.woz.ch/2021/digitaler-kapitalismus/china-nicht-als-vogelscheuche-benutzen.
On the Federal Agency for Civic Education’s Conference on Digitalization I will participate on a panel and a workshop.