 and Siri. Good morning. Well actually I was going to comment on the Jamaica Coalition, the Conservative Liberal Green Coalition, but everything changed. Still the weather report remains. So if I could have some water that would be great and I'm grateful to Sebastian and Co for translating and I'm going to apologize for speaking a bit fast because I have so many topics. I've cut them a bit. So let's start with something positive before the storm. So the bad weather I'm going to start with because people people always telling me I'm spreading bad vibes but I'll start with that weather and end with summer. Okay there are many people that work and live and act much as we do and we see that these people come get into prison. Yesterday we heard a Chinese blogger accused of terrorism or spreading democratic thought actually is convicted to eight years in prison. Many bloggers working for democracy and human rights for years in prison in in Turkey. Dennis Yujie representing many others for supposed terrorism support without trial and this year we learned that Basel Kartabil, a hacker, open source activist from Syria that was with Creative Commons and Wikipedia and he died in prison probably because of torture. We live in times when a TV addicted sociopath is the most powerful man in the world. He watches the wrong TV stations. We live in times where we almost would have had a Jamaica coalition in Germany after the elections. I must admit we had placed certain hopes in that which were disappointed when we heard about the results of the exploring talks which ended in the project to be abolished. We thought we would have two parts in the coalition that at least on paper would be working for fundamental rights. Possibly data retention would have gone perhaps in the next few years further erosion of fundamental rights could have been averted but if you look at the net politics positions that were on the paper these were basically just industry positions that was the concept it didn't need the liberals and the Greens for that and the SPD, the Social Democrats do like to join in and as it seems we know that the Democrats like to turn back and just fall down. We have a new situation now. They are exploring another grand coalition as they say and in contrast to the last parliament we'll have three opposition parties that are at least on paper work for fundamental rights. The liberals, the left party and the Greens have many engaged people in their ranks and in the parliamentary party who do these things and we have a new situation. We have one further opposition party that is for more surveillance and if there are any people in this Congress who voted for the alternative for Germany AFD and think that that is compatible with the values of this Congress that is not the case it's not compatible. If you do not understand this read the hacker ethic if you still don't understand read it again and if you still don't understand read the AFD manifesto or the laws that the AFD has tried to introduce into the state parliament in the federal states in Germany the this party stands for taking down fundamental rights more surveillance and that is simply not compatible with the values of our society with our community here. But what do we do when a new grand coalition is going to come if you kind of force go and head and strengthen the opposition parties and hope that they might cooperate more which I don't quite see coming because there is a lot of competition between them. We can hope that the opposition parties will at least have a certain race in initiatives to call the government government to account and we can also try to influence the governing parties. The conservatives are not a source of much hope there are people that are that share our values there people that do care about fundamental rights but many other people there that know that many of these people know that if they voice such concerns in the conservative party they have no career and the career is often more important to them. With the Social Democrats it's rather different probably still we have about a 40-60 percentage split of surveillance opponents and fundamental rights proponents against opportunists that think security perhaps will manage with the change of generations in the Social Democrats to have more people come forward and and come to into top positions that do work for a better digital society. So what are the next years what do we expect Merkel the chancellor Merkel has said that digitalization would become a top topic would become her topic after so many years of net politics under her stewardship that is quite an announcement. So this is a chancellor that called the internet a new land recently and fast internet for everyone everywhere this is an advert which they keep putting up in Berlin basically just well they're trying to keep keep the fight going basically and keep a brave face and we have the debate whether there's going to be an internet minister we had three potential internet ministers or even five in the last parliament where there's three parties in parliament in government you have to split it up and you know the result wasn't overwhelming so the debate was will there be just one internet minister will there be a state minister in the in the chancellery I'm a bit torn on the other on the one side on the one hand it would be good if a good coordination from the chancellor perhaps would take place but on the other hand after so many years of chancellor Merkel I'm not quite sure that she will improve things so on the other hand I do not believe that we would get a strong internet ministry that would be independent from the economy ministry the transport ministry and then all the other ministries that would get all the relevant resources and the relevant responsibilities from those other ministries so it would be just a paper tiger as it's as you say in German so it doesn't really work and you can't just put the most fit people there that read about digitalization in the newspaper that again is chancellor Merkel not in the picture but it was her mistake that he became our European commissioner for the digital economy so if you look at what the last the federal government did you have foremost you must foremost look at the area of surveillance they regarded Snowden as a feasibility study and they extended surveillance they reintroduced data retention although at the European level there are clear rulings that mass surveillance without cause is illegal and is against fundamental rights but that doesn't stop our federal government does not stop them from from reintroducing blankets mass surveillance wherever they can and they can do it in several places unfortunately and I forgot one thing the state Trojan again something the conservatives wanted to introduce but probably did not understand at all that is it is a very bad joke we thought they were making a joke or they thought but it is a very bad one with false like want to cry that broke more or less the whole internet because you were too stupid to look after those and that's what state Trojans depend on and we have a politics these days in the name of security that creates a lot of insecurity through things like the state Trojan a new authority called CTIS that is to monitor social networks but at least they don't get that much stuff because the salaries are not overwhelming who would like to work for a mega salary to create insecurity finding gaps in systems even from the black markets and creating massive insecurity so this massive insecurity is worrying if you look at several other debates that are on the rise internet of things we put all kinds of things into the internet which makes a lot of sense many of us sitting here know what we do but we have the big problem that our parents start to connect devices as well and they often do not know what they're doing we have these days a situation where in the electronic supermarkets you have old Android phones on sale with the ancient Android versions that are not being updated so from the point of sale to our parents I have so many security holes that it's a huge risk to consumers and a risk for a secure digital society we need ways of for consumer rights to be enforced and for security to be introduced into networks it's a huge debate about product liability where you have to be very clear is open source disadvantaged our small makers disadvantaged but if you look closely you have to look closely how do you then get more security more consumer rights and for that we need more people with expertise that join these debates and you always ask why actually do we have such a bad net politics earlier we used to say it's clear politicians don't know they didn't have they didn't know these days they do know a lot and if you don't if they don't know themselves they have they have assistants advisors that give them the right kind of information but mostly they listen to the wrong interests on the other hand for the grant tradition we will have the network do it that's because that's we have this since Friday Saturday see what will come to us there the intention wasn't too bad the intention was to do something against Facebook and shit where Facebook and co put privatized societies where big parts of our digital communication are constituted if you do participate or don't most others do in Facebook is not just Facebook it's WhatsApp as well and there's big problem the government thought well to solve it by making the situation a bit more complex well Facebook has very complex community standards which are so complex we don't really understand the logic we think there is a community person and just puts down dice rolls dice to dice some algorithms or something and with freedom of opinion we have to think if private platforms that are too big to just be any platform if these should have tasks that the government actually has to put through a criminal activities like vaterschafts verrat or other things do how we have seven days their juristical tasks which get delegated to private actors they get outsourced so these get even more powerful that's one of the problems and we hoped that the judicial branch ministry would think that Facebook would put down some moderators but no the moderators adjust bridge technology to more algorithms who will regulate our digital public and this can fail the absurd thing about all of this is and was the government has basically denied relegated the durchsetzung the enforcement the enforcement of right to these people it's a joke on that's what you said so it's and I think it's time that we fight for more rights put through more rights because they are too big to fail they're there we can't get them away we can build our alternatives but if we are unlucky our families are still at WhatsApp or Facebook in other words we have to see to get more rights there why can we have a takedown thing where we can have why is there no guarantee like a new virtual service like what's app or Facebook that we can and maybe there the moment we just get thrown out and that's the problem other problems or European area European copyright reform nobody's interested this except for copyright lobbyists on the one hand sliced to protect like copyright and we know some filters we are talking on this particular talk about it we had a talk about it privacy of rights where platforms with cooperated with security forces of the European Union to think about how to get out the terroristic stuff because what some people write some right lands is terroristic and other and people lose friends of Facebook once they're pursued for terrorism these upload filters are we're going to are going to come at least with the copyright reform and the hope is that the large suppliers such as Facebook will check every single upload whether it's it's conducive to corporate violation but the problem there is that you do the services not just for Facebook and Google but that Wikipedia has to employ employ the same technologies as well and few were getting enraged about these things earlier about about network blocking earlier in 2009 these upload filters are far more dangerous actually but now to the somewhat more positive things the nice weather there are some there's some good news the disturb reliability has finally gone that is if you operate an open Wi-Fi you're not going to be responsible for what your users do on it it took several years and that law it may actually to network blocking but at least the disturbs liability has gone politicians probably were too embarrassed about the whole complaints about so few open Wi-Fi's and there is an effect here is a map with open hotspots and you can easily see these are all hotspots in Berlin that are free or that open and these are the ones they operated by Freifunk so thanks a lot Freifunk you're doing great work much better than the state of Berlin or Brandenburg have ever managed to do with all the tax base money that they have another topic we thought well net neutrality that is over we fought the fight we had these images go make the rounds that's the internet without net neutrality you have to buy in all sorts of passes for different areas of the internet so we took care that good rules were established at the EU level so throttling and blocking would be forbidden it was better than we hoped for because you know you're going to I think I was responsible for it and it was actually we pushed through against as well but there was a loophole that we warned of and and the kinds of laws that that we've seen have all been abolished in the US by the Republicans and now that this happens in the US we also have the loophole of zero rating being used in Europe zero rating means throttling and blocking is forbidden so we actually prefer some services that are going to be exempt from volume caps but everyone else of course is now being discriminated because they're not being exempted the telecom started with stream on Vodafone followed suits even worse actually this is exactly the graphics that we were talking about that we were showing earlier as a warning it's the now it's reality just less colorful and then the topic that we will face in the next three four years how do we treat with algorithms with artificial intelligence most of you know that algorithms are nothing new they always existed in computer science algorithm systems have been developed for years and years Joseph Weidzenbaum knew it's hardly possible to look through these algorithms but there is a new dimension there are breakthroughs in machine learning and analysis capacities are new platforms more dynamic complex black boxes and they are being used in very sensitive areas predictive policing credit scoring regulating the public YouTube of representing regulating public arenas such as YouTube so algorithms become quite a problem we need rules regulations and other approaches to see how we how do we get accountability how do we get democratic control of the way algorithms are used 10 minutes we had 15 just a moment ago 10 minutes left okay let's imagine health sector coronary disease diseases if it's if it gets possible to develop a kind of recommendation system so patients are being recommended certain therapies the question is what data is are these algorithms being trained on does this apply all the kinds of data that fitness apps collect perhaps what kinds of things should be part of these recommendation now who will get an operation at the end and who won't how is this going to be accountable is this going to be calculated by hospital load or the reputation of a doctor will that be determined by whether they operate or not but that's just one of many aspects what can you do and I think we should not use metaphors such as algorithm MOT we need control regulating instances and it's a wide area health regulation health algorithms are quite different from Facebook algorithms this is about business secrets that you have to be that you have to loosen to give them to subject into more control so copyright laws have to be changed that it becomes easier to monitor and verify and probably we need new control institutions somewhere between data protection authorities and monopoly commissions whether this is a digital agency or whatever it needs to be staffed sufficiently to have impact assessments to run impact assessments and to control individual enterprises with their business models I could talk about this for hours but unfortunately I cannot another area where we have lots of catching up to do is media competency digital literacy we teach we've been teaching ourselves and we're probably quite competent in the digital arena but digital competence digital literacy encompasses a huge lot and the question then is who is going to teach our parents and all this how are they going to catch up that's one of the biggest challenges that we face large parts of society are very differently have very different levels of digital literacy in all kinds of areas and that costs money if you look at budgets now where the money is going to in our society you find that for digital literacy there is hardly anything although for almost 20 years every politician promises that this is going to be supported and and further than fostered and that is just impossible another thing if the privacy directive of Ingle gave a talk this morning from that's politic.org we they have the unique chance to enshrine further consumer rights regarding tracking against the industry privacy by default in in browsers for example rights to encryption enforce that to have end-to-end encryption everywhere transparency reporting with the authorities all these things could come with the privacy directive but there is a lot of resistance to they call it an attack on freedom and on free journalism that's what publishers like to say so as someone who does free journalism in the net I have to say there is no attack on free journalism here the free press it's an attack on business models that surveil us that monitor us and use instant in transparent monitoring and tracking and you can develop better business model for belt models for journalism now let's come to the sunny weather before depressing you even more there's a lot of really good examples here in a congress from our communities you can talk to youth or second shows we don't have to be afraid for parts of the youth they will be better than us the prototype funds is a good example how you can with lobbying of a digital civil society with the science ministry you could get a million dollars to support open source project this wasn't this way before that you could get thirty to fifty thousand euros for your open source project still easier to get one million euro for your startup ask Crystal India then getting ten thousand euros to program a great open source project but the prototype fund is a great example showing that it can get better but it's still just a drop on the hot stone if the federal government always says supporting economy economy supporting digital economy we have to say that digital democracy has to be supported as well we need millions as well but that doesn't put anything into it and it's a scandal that the digital society gets more money from Google and co and then from our state that we pay from our taxes whose yeah whose task this is to support us there are other great examples they still hope that it would be would get better I just installed my 80-year-old aunt signal and she understood it at once this was great she's sending me funny images so that's bad but whatever but I didn't have to install WhatsApp encryption gets easier encryption gets a standard people use email providers that use this that's a consumer decision we have to further to support safe safe things which will be as reasonable as like sorting the trash Calliope is a great thing that's getting used in the kids space with open hardware educational resources where we have built a small school computer that children eight from year 8 plus can play around with the computer learn the technique behind it and we have this education stuff there's this local stuff the fresh warehouse where communities can meet each other and the great thing about it is the city of Ulm is financing it it's a lighthouse project show your city could do the same and we have Freifunk thanks again because they put down more open hot spots than most communes and states in the last years more projects air data info like there is a sensor for small particles and it's it's censoring sensing this and you couldn't put it down onto the net and we have like 2000 in Germany alone now it's a German open data project and there were none of these collections so far now we can see how bad the the pollution is at Sylvester like New Year's likes to see how badly polluted the air is right in this moment when we are like having fireworks and we have Wikipedia all the open source projects there's not only reason to get depressive there's much hope for another digital society and many open source projects presented here you are supporting all this positive visions we have we have to have enlargen to to further society that was a short overview if you want to know more about net political debates in detail writes in freedom stage by Idri and EFF inside one or something has here level one has some extra stuff and I like the motto to what do something livable to society is possible if you fight for it fight for digital rights it's our net it's your net and we can fight for a right can defend it have a positive vision of it and we always say never give up it's a long fight it's a long war it's a cultural fight and multiple of these at once analog digital opens closed liberal racist and we have to fight stand up and keep going and if you can't support those who can do it for you can use just your donations so thank you very much well yeah that was fast talking Marcus he warned against it and he's thank