A Dutch court sentenced the owner of a crypto mixer to prison and called his argumentation “ideologie van maximale privacy” – an ideology of maximum privacy
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After a little break from the digital sphere there will be two public events I am attending in January.
EngageMedia invites to a more than interesting conference in Chiang Mai in May.
As the protests in China go on, technology is used by the protesters as well as the government. As in other countries, a high risk race between protesters and police can be watched in China. And again, western tech companies seem to be playing on the governments side.
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.
The new year starts with an interview with Lukas Ondreka / Dissentpodcast [in German]. We talked about digitalisation, gamification, and manipulative capitalism. The interview can be listened to at TAZ.blogs and at Dissentpodcast.
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 […]