 The online advertising ecosystem and Google, winner of the Big Brother was 2021. And Reina Tangens is the speaker. Reina is a co-founder of Digital Courage, a data protection or privacy activist, and a co-founder of the Hexen, the one in German group. And they are still finding new winners for the Big Brother Brother Awards in Germany, which is kind of surprising. And who is the winner of the 2021 award and the new category, which is called What Really Makes Me Angry? That is what Reina is going to talk about. Enjoy. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'm happy to be here in Congress and talk about the Big Brother Awards again. The Big Brother Awards are a joint project and among the organizers is the Chaos Computer Club. I'm now going to say something about my organization, Digital Courage, was founded in 1987, when people didn't quite know what they should do with these computers and they were very expensive to. And we started a regular event called Public Domain, which has been the grassroots group from. And the CCC was involved in that too. Digital Courage had been working with only volunteers until 2006 and since then we're happy to be able to pay a few people so that not just people whose parents are rich or who have a lot of money themselves can join us. And we're very happy to have been able to have some effect. And part of our work every year goes into the Organizing the German Big Brother Awards. These are, this is an international project. The Big Brother Awards as such, they were started in the UK. And by Privacy International, Big Brother Awards, of course, referred to the George Orwell novel, 1984, where the Big Brother is watching everyone. And at the time we were wondering whether the name should actually be taken on from the other countries too, because Big Brother, the image of Big Brother evokes totalitarian states surveilling everyone. And Orwell in those days looked towards stalinism as a role model. And we thought that's actually not far reaching enough because of the manifold options for surveillance these days. It's not just states that monitor us, but the commercial sector is very busy in monitoring. And it was clear that this would become an extraordinary thing as well. So we wondered for a while whether to call it Huxley Award. The Brave New World novel has a lot more about this consumer attitude, people that are happy if they're supposedly their needs are fulfilled and wishes. And they do all these things happily. But we decided against the name change because it is an international project. And we wanted to be part of that. And not as many people know Huxley, and this was not going to be a literary award, although we do like to organize readings against surveillance. The Big Brother Awards have been bestowed since 2000 by us in the city of Bielefeld. And we have a range of activists, civil rights experts, previously law experts. The KS Computer Club is one of them in personified by Frank Rosengard, Tilo Weicher, the former potato protection commissioner from the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, now a member of the Netzwerk Datenschutz-Expektise, data network privacy expertise, Peter Wede, a very renowned industrial law expert from Frankfurt, as well as these other jury members. And the Big Brother Awards are given out in various categories. And it takes the shape of a big gala every year. The winners are not that enthusiastic, normally, about winning. And they avoid appearing at the gala to accept the award, although it's actually a very nice sculpture that they are given. But there are exceptions. And noteworthy and praiseworthy exceptions are Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom. And some time ago, Zeit Online, the news website, and the last award that I mentioned actually touches on what I'm going to talk about today. What else are we doing? Sometimes the publicity that we try to create through the Big Brother Awards isn't enough, so we need to apply some more pressure. So we organize the Freiheitsstaat Angst or English Freedom Not Fear rallies. And every now and then, we have to go to the German Federal Constitutional Court, for example, against data retention, against unemployment wages register. OK, Big Brother Awards. In fact, the title of the talk has already given it away. Google has a role to play here. And it's not even the first time that they won this award. In 2013, they had one as well. You can all read up on this at bigbrotherawards.de. And it's all in German and English, including all the award speeches. And this interpreter has translated some of those. And the award speech in 2013 had a lot of original sources that I researched, and some of the quotes from the Google founders and the CEO at the time were noted. And I would like to give those to you first to just get you into the mood, as it were. And this is what Paralloun is going to do. Right. Now, original quote from Eric Schmidt. I'm just seeking out the original, if there is, I can't. So Eric Schmidt's understanding of privacy on the net for then CEO was if you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. The second quote, I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. And we have the founder, Sergey Brin. We want Google to be the third half of your brain. And to make it a bit more concrete, Larry Page, it will be included in people's brains. Eventually, you will have the implant, where if you think about a fact, it will just tell you the answer. Now, we can imagine that in a very concrete way. If I read a news item on the internet about the conservative politician recently died who was conspicuous for corruption connected with the state of Azerbaijan. And if you consider, what is this Azerbaijan anyway? And you wonder, and you could then use Google Glass maybe and immediately find the Wikipedia entry about the state. You might think that that is a very practical thing. But I'd say that this is hugely dangerous, because Google tries to stop you from thinking and win you off thinking. And this kind of power is something that Google really likes. And Google really tries to make things as comfortable and pleasurable as possible to us and pretends to be doing what we want and wish for. And that's what gets me to the recent topic. And that is something that we invented a new category for, which was what really makes me really angry. And I think you know this. All of you remember the feeling you go to a website. And what do you see? A cookie banner. And about that, I'm now going to read to you from the award speech. Cookie banners. They're such a pest. You know this. You enter a website. And bam, immediately this box pops up, terribly designed, and covering what you actually wanted to see. And now you need to decide, do you just want to get to this web page? Pick quickly. Then just click the large, colored OK button. But if you take your rights thing seriously, it gets complicated. I squint it. You read the small print gray on white and spend minutes clicking away everything that you don't want. And that is quite a lot. The 470 trackers, for example, at the German broadsheet Süddeutsche Zeitung, I don't want any of this, is not even an option. And if you do the arduous work of manually deselecting each and every tracker, be very careful because the next friendly and colorful button says, except all, and not save selection. That button is gray. But careful. Again, you shouldn't even click on that one, because first, you need to find the well-hidden category called legitimate interest. In there, everything is set to active still. And again, you need to deactivate everything. Did you know that? And meanwhile, I heard that from the legal point of view, you can actually ignore this and just save selection, because you should have to explicitly give your consent. But which of these company would actually keep to those rules? Now, these cookie dialogues are, of course, designed according to the latest findings on human perception, psychology, and web design for ergonomically pleasing websites. But the principle is to do the exact opposite. So important choices are hidden in the text flow, while the OK option is displayed as a big button. These choices are written in illegible colors and font sizes. The except all button is at the bottom right, where we would normally expect to find the button to confirm our choices. Often, the left-right alignment of options is swapped. If I click where I previously clicked to deactivate trackers, there now is a central switch that will activate everything again. Super. And then there are linguistic monsters, complex wordings, and multiple negations to maximize our confusion. This kind of trickery in design is called dark patterns. So dark patterns, they could also rightly be called deceit, unethical, or manipulation by design. If we are in a good mood and not in a hurry, we could regard it all as an absurd game, a dark pattern adventure. Will I make it through the maze and decline all the trackers? What are they going to try next in order to trick me? And once I got through to the other side, can anyone remind me which article I wanted to read? Cookie banners are not a game. They are miserable and mean. They steal my lifetime. This is design made to tire me out and wear me down. The intention is to make me give up and eventually click OK. And now everyone take note. It is not data protection. That is to blame. No. That's often thought and claimed by interested parties. No, these unnerving queries are by no means mandated by law. On the contrary, a large part of these cookie banners are outright illegal. In May 2021, the privacy organization Neub.eu, that Mark Schrems, the Austrian activist initiated, sent more than 500 complaints to companies using illegal cookie banners on their websites. And there could be a lot more. Thank you for that. And thanks to the members of the European Parliament, the many people who joined in, Matias Ebel to the journalist wrote a tool that makes complaints easier. Use that. Use the options to actually make these companies work. Give them work so that these things stop. I would also like to thank the members of the European Parliament who started the initiative TrackingFreeAds.eu against tracking-based advertising. And cookie banners are only the most visible materialization of the ways we are spied upon on the internet. So there are many more spying methods. The Facebook Pixel, that's included invisibly on many media websites. And the trays are clicking behavior to Facebook. There is the browser fingerprint, which many of you will know. It uses information on things like the operating system. We use browser type plug-ins, installed fonts, in order to re-identify us without the need for any cookies at all. What really makes me really angry, you see this dissuading period that you often see when something is loading. Do you know what happens in the background when you enter a website? Your personal profile is now being offered on the online advertising market. An auction for your attention begins. You are the commodity. This is called real-time bidding. It happens in milliseconds. Various groups of online advertising providers identify and analyze and classify you using your online profile, which is kept by even different companies. Say you are male in your mid-40s and you have a taste for expensive watches, or the student who's just looked for a flat share online is now being baited with supposedly convenient credit offers. So you see this example. Not just things that are positive for us, but also that normally this is exactly where the foundations are laid to drive us in. Now with real-time bidding, our ecosystem is actually wagering in real-time bidding, trying to be the one to show you their adverts. The gigantic network of providers and other fishing carries, and those who actually make the web interesting, all those journalists, content providers, all of all kinds, they get only the smallest pieces of the cake. What makes me really angry that other people that shout, ah, but can content be made available for free without advertising, well, the greatest free is something different. Snooping and manipulation is going on. And the media that are producing that interesting content, I am currently getting a complete waffle from a mobile, thank you, fitting to the cake. I also want one at the door, at the next door, the cake, the ad cake, what companies, maybe in media companies have been selling advertising space for a long time. However, until the 1990s, they were actually able to keep the largest share of the taking for themselves. And from that, they could pay journalists, photographers, cartoonist, researchers, et cetera, a proper wage. Sinter 3000s, media revenue is in free fall. Because Mino I have 50% to 70% of the money spent by advertising customers that does not reach the publishers anymore, or the content creators. It is taken by the service providers and advertising platforms that have got in the way. And that's what you can see here. That's the development of the revenue from advertising in the US. And as you can see, more money is spent. But the publishers get much, much less. And Google and Facebook are getting more and more. And as you can see, there is a different change in power through money. And that's the money that doesn't reach the media anymore, which they don't like, but they still cooperate with Google. To summarize personalized advertising means the users are snooped upon and the media companies are starved out. What makes me really angry? Google now presents itself as a white knight and it announced Chrome, Google's own browser, will block third party goodies from 2022. Big cheers from the internet and media, Google will rescue us from cookie banners. But it's not that easy. But blocking third party cookies in no way means that this will stop tracking and spying on the net. No, Google simply wants to introduce a new flock, which doesn't actually mean flock, but FLOC, Federated Learning of CoreHards. And FLOC means the following. We will be based on our browsing behavior, what Chrome stores always. The browser puts us into a group in a CoreHard. And saves that on our local computer. And websites can then ask for that. So our browser behavior will be analyzed. There are a lot of people and we are one of those. And you might think that you can run in this group of 1,000 or 5,000 people, but that's a mistake. But many of those people are also logged in. For example, in the Google or the Facebook account, all both of them. And they can also be recognized by their browser fingerprint. So that information is then much more precise than before. The browser sees everything you do in the internet and it will be considered in the selection of the CoreHard. And that website can then recognize you, depending on that. Thanks. So FLOC improves the analyzational possibilities, but only for Google. And that graph is important for that. That's the part how many people have Chrome. And they have about 70%. And in Germany, it's a little bit less. In Germany, many people are using Firefox. And that's a good thing, even if you can critique Firefox. Who hope that Google protects us, that we can't be traced in the internet, who couldn't have seriously expected that. Because Google, as a company, finances itself to 99% from advertising. I wrote in Lodas, we rather trust that Piranhas are going to be vegan. Google will be doing everything against changes to that business. So we have to do something against that very clearly and hard. And a side effect to FLOC that is welcome to Google is that they are all staying competitors from the advertisement market. And here you can see the main winners. That's Google, Facebook, and recently also Amazon. And then maybe you have seen that there are ads on Amazon. And that's not often looked into. But it's also a big business. And Peter Thier, who financed Facebook and produced papers. And he wrote a book called Competition for Losers. These people don't want a free market, which is usually suggested. They want a monopoly. And that's what they are working for. So to another point, which makes me really angry, that's how the cooperation treat every one of us, how these regard people as a resource, which they can exploit and whose personal experience they can own. The disdain for people, the ruthlessness and the intention to deceive, the scorn for paying taxes and for state infrastructure, and the contempt for legal regulation. Shoshana Zuboff has found a word for that, surveillance capitalism. This book is something I want to recommend to you. This is the German version, the translation. But if you can read the English version, it's better. So it's not only a single data leech. It's a whole leaching ecosystem. It's this includes insurances that want to exclude every possible risk to themselves, the scarring companies that secretly rate us all, determining our opportunities in real life, the lobbyists, the think tanks, the PR agencies, the law firms that make this position possible, and the secret services that profit from all and like to fish and murky waters themselves. Then came the big question, who is going to receive the big brother award, if you're looking at this long list, to the cookie bakeries, to the online advertisement industry, to the big platform monopolists, to the psychological nudging experts, and the dark pattern designers, the profile paddlers, real-time bidding casino operators, the smart ones, unscrupulous ones, hangouts in the media. It was a tough choice, but then something happened. Because Google basically nominated themselves. We don't know if it's human errors, the real deed of a whistleblower or an AI that had been sampling a digital truth theory or maybe loaded an ethics module. What happened? The story goes like this. 10 US states led by Texas filed a lawsuit against Google in 2020. They complained that Google was abusing its market power to fix prices for online advertisement, forming a monopoly and manipulating auctions for advertisement space. Google was claimed to be abusing. Without restraint, its double role is an advertisement platform provider and as a provider of ads itself, as well as its access to user data. Kent Paxton, attorney general of Texas, explained the image with a baseball image. Google is acting as pitcher, catcher, batter, and umpire all at the same time. So Google filed documents at the US district court in Texas intending to prove the innocence. The file documents were excessively relevant to the case, but not in the way Google intended because the documents had not been redacted. So the really interesting passages had not been backed out. A few hours later, Google noticed the mistake and asked to refile its documents. But it was too late. Some farce court reporters from the legal parter, Amlex, they had read the unredacted versions and quickly realized the treasure that had fallen into their laps. These documents describe that since 2013, Google has an action and platform. Google as an action and platform had been using its knowledge of previous actions, options to predict which offers would be just high enough. That means Google can tell you the prices to buy an action and platform. With that, they were able to prove that the current action and platform has been used to predict which offers would be just high enough. So using their second role, they were able to, I'm sorry, have lost it was now in Google's own documents that they were abusing their double role. And they were not only gaining an advantage on their competitors, but also pressing down prices on advertising. So let me repeat, the users are snooped upon and media companies are starved out. So they were using its knowledge of previous options to predict what offers would be just high enough. And they were using that double role to win these options and drive prices. And Google, what makes me really angry, Google has internally named this process Project Bernanke after Bernanke, the former chair of the US Federal Reserve. This code name signifies nothing else, but Google's license to print money, the sheer arrogance. But there is more. In 2018, Google struck a secret deal with Facebook, number two in the advertising market. The internal code name is Jedi Blue. In this deal, Google assures Facebook its competitor that Facebook are going to win 10% of the auctions that they participate in on Google's platform. How could that be assured in a market with supposedly free competition? This is how Google delivers information to Facebook about internet users, which Facebook can use to uniquely identify 60% of desktop users and 80% of mobile users. This way, I'm coming to the end soon. This way, Facebook knows for which users it will be worth to invest for their ads. And Facebook used a procedure called header bidding that other companies prefer. And they assure in return that they will stop pursuing this rather technology. So if that is not anti-competitive behavior, then what is? But you are caught. And there are things that don't just make me angry, but also that make me hopeful others. And I put these on this slide. So the lawsuits and sanctions against big tech due to privacy and competition law violations are increasing. And we should still see that the valid law is enforced. In California, the state that is actually the state of the Silicon Valley has enacted a data protection law. And that was actually stricter than the European GDPR in New York Times decided that they should forgo trackers and personalists advertising. And they're actually increasing their revenue because they don't have to give money away to all these profile builders that sell users data. The British Daily, The Guardian, finished its 2019 year with, because they're making money from donations by the readers who cherish their content. The EU is preparing two important laws, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. And they are actually at the trilog stage. Keep that in your focus, please. And it's interesting that there is a bipartisan movement that's actually starting to curtail the might of the corporations. And Lina Khan was nominated for the head of the, or was elected as the head of the Federal Trade Commission. That is really hopeful. And a quick call. We will be awarding Big Brother Awards again next year. So if you have interesting issues, please nominate them to us. You can do that in the RC3 world, actually. But also on our website, of course. And finally, I believe that this quote by Albus Dumbledore is really appropriate. And I think I'll just read that. Have your wafers are readied out. Your wafers are readied out. The time will come when you have to decide between what is right and what is comfortable. I don't know the original for that. Thank you for your attention. All right, and thank you to the speaker for this. And introducing all this. And me too, of course, I hate cookie banners. Right. Now, on to the questions and answers. We collected a few. Now, let's dive right in. What is the state of things regarding the regulation of dark patterns? Are there any plans for that? Yes, there are ideas. And things are moving. Timo Wilken, the social democrat politician, wanted to actually ban all kinds of personalized advertising dark patterns as a ban on explicit, on circumventing explicit consent by fooling people. That is something that the EU has included in their draft laws. And Timo Wilken, to add, this is a member of the European parliament from this German social democrat. So we'll have to keep at it, and we'll have to make the German government apply the pressure and increase the pressure even because it's important, not just an issue that individuals are being inspired upon. It's the whole ecosystem where media deprived of their revenue and opinions can be manipulated. Micro-targeting is enabled, which increases divisions in society because people are influenced into different directions and radicalized each in their own direction. So there's a whole long tail behind this. And that's why it's important to tell the German government with emphasis that this is not a pro-economy measure if dark patterns are still allowed. Adding on a question from me personally, I think I remember that you can actually report cookie banners that don't have a deactivate all function. Is that correct? My memory. Yes, you can report this. You should complain to the individual company. And there is a tool called Traktor by Matthias Ebel, the journalist from Hofprosten.de, a blog. You can, of course, report to the data privacy commissioners, the authorities, and make sure that these people are given some pressure. We can report that this has been effective. There are now more cookie banners where you can actually decline all with one button, but some still haven't learned it. And we should make sure to give them some stress. Yeah. Thank you. Moving on with IRC questions, how about the measures that browser developers have put in against tracking? Safari has an anti-tracking feature by default. And so things you can use on mobile. There are various things. And what's the state of things there? Firefox has done a lot too, but that's good. I would discourage you from using Chrome. I only use that in exceptional cases. Chromium is slightly un-Google, but there are various variants, projects. Brave is another one. And with Brave, the thing is that the approach is, I think, somewhat controversial. I'm not decided on that one yet, whether I really like it. Brave grabs the advertising space that any medium will have on their web pages, and so clears that space and then puts its own advertising, if the advertising it organizes themselves in that same space. And they share the revenue between them and the users, they say, and the users then can decide where this should go. And you could say, OK, this is great. We can donate this to that fantastic blog, which they often read. But the medium that produces the content that I'm reading, where the Brave injects its advertising, these media do not receive anything. And that, I think, is a bit unfair. I believe we need to really think a lot more about the business models here. But that is exactly what we need creativity for, rather than for the further refining of anti-tracking measures. There is an idea from the IRC here that I'll just read out. Yes, please do. He was a booked travel, and he got a lot of ads for that. And that roommate thought that he saw the trend, and he was the first one of the trends. And to protect those people, we have to do something more. And I tried to explain my roommate something, but the roommate didn't believe me. So are there possibilities for not techies to explain it to them better? Of course, legally, but, well, I couldn't explain cookies to my grandma. I think it's best if you can show it how what happens if you put something, if you want to buy something somewhere and accept all the trackers, which you can do on another computer, which is clean, and how you can then see how the ads on other pages are starting to show up, because they are thinking, I would be interested in that. So I think showing that is always the best. I also had something happen to me like that. It's quite a while ago. We bought the German menu for PGP, and we looked again on Amazon on what ranking place it is. And I was on another people's computer who has an Amazon account to look into something else. And then I saw here, look, the German PGP handbook, which was shown by Amazon. But it wasn't generally shown to everyone, but it was only shown to that person, because that person looked into it multiple times but hadn't bought it yet. So it was shown at like this thing of the week, because Amazon didn't know who's at that computer. So you really think you know something, and that's a general thing. And I can really feel it, what the roommate thought. And now the question, like the tool from the cookie-bunners complaint. And we are posting the link to the ISC chat. I don't have it right now, but look to Rufposten.de, the blog from Matthias Eberl. I'm on Otherwise Look to the Cookettes blog, to a blog from Michael Cookettes, where Michael Eberl wrote also an article about identity management and what you can do. And there you will definitely find the link. Yeah, thank you. And another tip, a game, where you can try not to accept any cookies in that game. It's getting always more complicated, and it will be always harder. And if that's right, then that won't be right, and so on. And sometimes you can't see what you're clicking at. And I played it, and I didn't manage to decline every cookie. And I don't really know how it's called. It's something like termsandconditions.com. You can find it below the big brother-award-slow-decio from Google that's linked. Please play it, and show it to other people, and let other people try it. And they will become crazy. Thank you very much for the tip. Interpreters in markets called termsandconditions.game. Ah, they found it as well. And this interpreter has actually managed to decline everything, but only the second time, I guess. Sorry for interrupting. And directly below there is a really nice video linked in which two women are doing a play about the cookie banners. One of them asks the questions from the cookie banner, and the other just wants to bake cookies. And the other one wants to decline everything, but she doesn't manage. So it's a nice theater play. It's great. May I also give a tip? Another game is Data Dealer, which is a little bit older. So maybe younger people don't know it. So Data Dealer, you can find it. And there you can play some evil data leech and buy and sell data. And it's really fun, and you can get quite some insights. And I think everyone should have tried that. And you can also play it with your parents and family. It's from Boffi Christel from Austria. It's really great. You change the perspectives you get to be a data leech. You have to think, how do I get the birthday of a person? Well, I can just offer Horoscopes online for free. Right. Now I have a question. To the questions. I think that was everything. We have no more in the pad. OK. We are waiting a moment. I have to tell you, thank you very much from the community, from the people, from the ISE, from the chat. And it was really great. And there was also a call for Rena for a digital ministry. I think I stay with Digital Courage. There's enough to do. But we really like to help. You can call us, our phone number is in the internet. And who's interested in sources. I did a lot of work for the low data issue. There are a lot of footnotes with original sources and further links also below. So yeah, please look at the text. We have another question. Wouldn't be a solution to a developer browser who simulates a user which simulates a user which agrees to all the cookies. But the actual user then doesn't have a problem. And the content creator gets the money. There are plugins already. But I think that's not a good idea. We should start with the root of the problem. There are so many other influences to other things. So for us at DGOT, it's not only about just the single users we are in the internet, but also around the whole network. Other people who profit from it, those who wash the data in foreign countries. So it's legal. So insurance companies who talk something about the future, think how the future will be and then don't offer us some things. So we have to think about the big picture and not just trick the system. But hackers have fun with that. But we should look to the bigger thing. We should hack the ecosystem. That whole thing is the right thing. And we are currently looking into competition legalities which is not really complex and not our area of expertise. But there might be some people who could be at least for us because they want to have fair competition not only for the platforms. And there is a window open now where we can, we should be, many people say we can't do something in Europe because they would just do it somewhere else than in Europe. And we will have a problem with them. But many people and US citizens say, why are the Europeans treated better than us? We want this kind of data protection law as well. That's what's happening now. And it would be good to see that we actually have an effect in law and that companies that act globally are not going to use various individual terms and conditions in various countries because if they know that for European customers they have to adapt there to UNCs, we should fight for supervisory authorities to start with capable people, not just legal people but also tech savvy people. We should make sure that technology is shaped in a way that we have a choice. And that we can choose previously friendly solutions. And as has been announced, we need in the economic ministry, we need a place, we need support for open source. And we need an autonomous infrastructure that is not based on open source alone but also is a freedom preserving infrastructure that's not built on surveillance capitalism. That is what I would wish for, and that is what it's worth fighting for. Definitely, I can only agree to that. We have a bit of time left. Let's wait for a few more questions. One for me about the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, what does that mean? What is the time frame when the law is in this trilogue thingy? And that doesn't really mean anything to me, I have to say. Yeah, so the trilogue, you can imagine that you have the dialogue normally where two parties are involved and the trilogue involves three. The legal initiative at the EU level comes from the EU Commission, the European Commission. And the European Parliament then goes, they have committees who have debated on the issue. They made certain positions, formed positions, and gave their positions. And now it is also being debated with the Council of Ministers. And that's where the national governments come in because they send their ministers into the council. So that's why it's important to have a new government in place and put really put the pressure on them to go from what the right position is there because the problem was that the German government always used to say, yes, we want all this great European data protection. We want to make sure that it should be as good as the German data protection law used to be. That's what they kept claiming to the outside, but internally in the council and negotiations, which are held in confidence, there are no published notes from that. The German government actually always worked against privacy and tried to prevent the general data protection regulation from being passed. And I hope that this double-faced game is something we won't get anymore with the new government. But of course we'll have to look at what they're doing and fight that the documents about the negotiations within the Council of Ministers are no longer kept in secret. I think that is very wrong. And we have to keep up with that. And again, a huge thanks to Jan-Philippe Albrecht and his team with Ralph Bendrat and everyone, the parliamentarians who were responsible for formulating the GDPR and the position of the parliament. This is a miracle of democracy even though in many places we may be unhappy. But the fact that it just exists is fantastic. Thank you. Thank you to the insights there. And the timeframe. So in the first quarter of this new year, 2002, is when a lot of things will be decided. Let's see how much the negotiations will be going back and forth, but it will be worth to try to influence people at that stage. The commission here on government representatives and the council, but also the members of the European Parliament. And quite practically, we need support here. So people on the street maybe. Sometimes we call for small demonstrations. Small can be quite effective. And it would be great if people would support these calls and join us for these. We have a newsletter on our website that will keep people informed. And we have a form there where you can say that I would like to join a demonstration. Click on that and register your willingness to support us in that way. And that would help. Thank you. Thanks a lot. And as I said, a lot of positive feedback is in the chat. So again, from there, lots of praise and gratitude. And I think it's time to move over to the extended Q&A. I can't see any questions remaining from the pad, but let's wait and see who comes to the breakout room. And if you only have an idea later, I am not going to disappear. You can always write an email, call, tweet, use mastodon, toot. Or come to our assembly in the world. Yeah. And don't forget, if there's anything that unnerved you recently that you found conspicuous, something you noticed in your job that you just don't think is right at all, nominated for the Big Brother Awards. We are looking at each nomination. We're researching the details. The next award ceremony will be on the 29th of April, 2022. But we would like to have your nominations right now. So we have the time for in-depth research. Okay. Vielen, vielen Dank für die Aufmerksamkeit. And thank you for your attention very much. And the great presentation and the questions. Because that is not so easy, as I know from experience.