Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 5, 2017, 7:40 p.m.
(60 minutes)
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The power of major Internet companies is growing. Due to the possession and hunger for data about its users, they have an increasingly dominant position on the Internet and in the world. Political- and the economic systems are increasingly determined by large internet companies or driven by business interest in stead of the public interest. Because of that People's freedom and civil rights are under pressure. Think about online privacy and digital identities of users. This has to change. How can we use technology to ensure digital sovereignty and (online) civil rights for citizens?
Presenters:
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Tom Demeyer
Tom Demeyer (m) is Head of Technology at Waag Society. In 1998, he started at Waag Society as a senior developer of real-time audiovisual software, something he already worked on at STEIM since 1987. Applications like BigEye and Image/ine, but also hardware sensor interfaces like Sensorlab were at the cradle of real-time computer technology in the performing arts.
Currently his main interests are data analysis and data ethics, privacy and security enhancing technologies and the semantic web.
Tom Demeyer (m) is Head of Technology at Waag Society. In 1998, he started at Waag Society as a senior developer of real-time audiovisual software, something he already worked on at STEIM since 1987. Applications like BigEye and Image/ine, but also hardware sensor interfaces like Sensorlab were at the cradle of real-time computer technology in the performing arts.
Currently his main interests are data analysis and data ethics, privacy and security enhancing technologies and the semantic web.
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Marleen Stikker
Marleen Stikker is president and co-founder of Waag Society.
Marleen Stikker (1962) is founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1994, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet. She is founder of Waag, a social enterprise that consists of Waag Society, a research Institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, that launched companies like Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world. She is also is advisor to the policy strategy group of the EU.
Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker's Bill of Rights motto "If You Can't Open It, You Don't Own It". Waag Society is actively involved in the Open Design and Creative Commons movement and believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.
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