TRAP – Are Recommendation Algorithms crucial factors for the survival of our democracies?
Recommendation algorithms and moderation rules in social media polarize our society. We all struggle with the impacts. So what can we do?
Opinion Paternalism vs. Disinformation – How our Freedom of Expression evolves
A memorandum with seven examples and seven proposals. The last few months have shown that our democracies can face serious crises of confidence as a result of media-driven polarization. If we want to further protect freedom of expression and fundamental rights, we...
Chatcontrol: How the EU Commission is willing to sacrifice the secrecy of correspondence for illusive child protection
According to a hastily passed EU ePrivacy Derogation, our entire electronic communication will be searched for indications of paedophilia in the future. The EU Commission believes it has every right to carry out such an Orwellian invasion of privacy – because it is...
Reinventing the wheel: How self-sovereign identities could help to fix the internet
The German Minister of the Interior, Mr. Zimmermann, just couldn’t believe it. There were really "adult judges" who adopted the "marginal concerns" of a radical minority against the census. And worse: only months later, constitutional judges formulated in a landmark...
Three great lectures on video
There are plenty of lecture videos available on the digital human rights subject. Yet, some of them clearly stand out. Here are three that I found particularly interesting for my understanding of the matters. For me this is alltogether 3.5 hours of mindblowing...
Our data belong to us – don’t they? About data ownership
The question of who owns the data treasure we have created, who is allowed to process it and why that is so, has not been answered to date. Some people think that it’s even better that way: That data ownership was Pandora’s box, the beginning of the end. Here are a...
Do we need a declaration of digital human rights?
Dealing with this subject, I found a recent panel discussion from the Web Summit 2018, that covers exactly this issue. It serves very well to point out the positions and set a few common misunderstandings straight (though you don't need to see it to read this...
Document: Defending human rights in the age of digitalization
The following document was published as part of our position paper of the Giordano-Bruno-Foundation (”How should IT work?“), which was prepared at a workshop in Berlin in May 2018 and revisted by renowned lawyers, ethicists and IT specialists. The formulation...
