Name: Ralf

Family Name: BENDRATH

Affiliation: Delft University of Technology

Personal web-site: http://bendrath.blogspot.com/

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Ralf Bendrath hacked the Commodore C-64 in the eighties, studied security policy and information warfare in the nineties, and has been researching various aspects of internet privacy since then. His current research project is examining the use and regulation of deep packet inspection.

Ralf Bendrath was a civil society member of the German government delegation to the World Summits on the Information Society in 2003 and 2005. Since 2006, he has ben actively involved in organizing the mass protests against data retention and other surveillance measures in Germany.

Title of the presentation

The rise of the anti-surveillance movement 2.0

Abstract

In the last few years, Western populations have shown a growing awareness of privacy risks as well as more and more scepticism of ever more surveillance by governments and private companies. The EU directive on data retention of telecommunications data especially has sparked protests in Germany, which led to the biggest constitutional challenge in German history, to massive street protests, and in 2008 even to an international privacy action day. The presentation will give an overview of these developments, explain how internet and web 2.0 tools were used and which impact this had on the forms of organization, collaboration and action, and discuss the new anti-surveillance movement in the context of larger developments in policy, technology and society.

On-line publications

The Social and Technical Self-Governance of Privacy, in: Olaf Dilling / Martin Herberg / Gerd Winter (Hrsg.): Responsible Business? Self-Governance and the Law in Transnational Economic Transactions; Oxford: Hart, 2008 http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/Bendrath_Privacy-Self-Regulation-final.pdf

Future of Privacy - Zukunft von Netz und Gesellschaft, in: Bettina Sokol (Hrsg.): Persönlichkeit im Netz: Sicherheit - Kontrolle – Transparenz, Düsseldorf: LDI Nordrhein-Westfalen 2008 http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/Bendrath-Future_of_Privacy-Buchfassung.pdf

The Return of the State in Cyberspace. The Hybrid Regulation of Global Data Protection, in: Myriam Dunn / Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel / Victor, Mauer, (Hrsg.): The Resurgence of the State: Trends and Processes in Cyberspace Governance, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, <http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~bendrath/The-Return-of-the-State-in-Cyberspace-final-edit.doc>

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