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#FacingChina: Two Talks and Discussions

Friedricht-Naumann-Stiftung and Thomas-Dehler-Stiftung invited me for talks on China, technology, and freedom. Afterwards was an lively discussion on the topic with Ulrich Lechte (Member of Parliament) and the audience. The discussion was hosted by Armin Reinartz.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 and can be watched here.

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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.

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Video Digitaler Salon vom 30.10.2020: Score me maybe? (in German)

October 30th 2019 Humbold Instituts für Internet und Gesellschaft invited to their “Digital Saloon” to discuss social scoring.

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Panel and Workshop on BPB’s Digi-Konf in Frankfurt/Main

On the Federal Agency for Civic Education’s Conference on Digitalization I will participate on a panel and the presentation of a workshop. The panel “Surveillance and Security vs. Freedom and Data Protection” with Rebekka Weiß, from bitkom, the sinologist Maximilian Mayer, German Studies Center Tongji University Shanghai and Adrienne Fichter from REPUBLIK.ch an independent news […]

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30.11.2019 Talk & Workshop on the BAKJ in Leipzig

The the BAKJ (Bundesarbeitskreis kritischer Juragruppen) invited me to deliver a talk and and host a workshop on their annual congress on November 30st in Leipzig.

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30.11.2019 Talk & workshop on the BAKJ in Leipzig

The the BAKJ (Bundesarbeitskreis kritischer Juragruppen) invited me to deliver a talk and and host a workshop on their annual congress on November 30st in Leipzig .