Douwe Schmidt is a community manager and privacy advocate. As part of his work at Dutch hosting provider Greenhost, he organizes the monthly meetup TA3M and founded the critical community Noisy Square - a coalition of many organizations and individuals questioning the dynamics of the net on a fundamental technical and political level. Currently, he is a volunteer for digital rights organization Bits of Freedom, for which he collaborates with many Dutch organizations to make a nationwide crypto party called Privacy Cafe. This initiative recently spread out to other countries like Belgium and France. He is also the author of a research blog on his digital alter-ego in which he investigates the data hunger of governments and of companies.