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Privacy Activism 2.0 lessons learned from the fight against data retention in Germany Ralf Bendrath www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de bendrath.blogspot.com

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How did we get there?

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The issue

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<ul><li>December 2005: Data Protection FAIL </li></ul><ul><ul><li>EU Directive on Data Retention adopted </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>„ We must do something in Germany now“ </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Now: Broader internet freedom movement </li></ul><ul><ul><li>„ Federal Trojan“, censorship, … </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Also privacy offline: labour rights etc. </li></ul></ul>Data Retention & Privacy

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At the beginning, there was no plan (but a mailing list and a wiki)

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Participation

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Pop Culture Viral Marketing

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Get offline!

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Results

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Internationalization

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„ Freedom not Fear“

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Lessons Learned

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Forget Control <ul><li>open structures and free licenses </li></ul><ul><li>„ ownership“ instead of control </li></ul><ul><li>experts for substance and legal issues </li></ul><ul><li>pop culture and fun </li></ul><ul><li> Give people an environment in which they can do what they are good at. </li></ul>

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Be Ready for Ambivalence <ul><li>amorphous structure </li></ul><ul><ul><li>organization? platform? network? alliance? </li></ul></ul><ul><li>political conflicts can‘t be solved online </li></ul><ul><ul><li>often they don‘t have to </li></ul></ul><ul><li>trust does not scale </li></ul><ul><ul><li>„ Web of Trust“, F2F meetings </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>but still many unknown helpers & fighters </li></ul></ul><ul><li>herding cats and leadership by listening </li></ul>

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Twitter changed the game again <ul><li>current anti-censorship fight </li></ul><ul><li>„ traditional“ activism 2.0 structures </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Yes, we still have a wiki and a mailing list… </li></ul></ul><ul><li>but main activity over Twitter </li></ul><ul><ul><li>A movement glued together by one hashtag </li></ul></ul><ul><li>100,000 signatures within 3 weeks! </li></ul>

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<ul><li>„ Where do I get these T-Shirts?“ </li></ul><ul><ul><li>http://dataloo.spreadshirt.net </li></ul></ul><ul><li>How can I participate? </li></ul><ul><ul><li>next „Freedom not Fear“ action day </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Saturday, 12 September 2009 </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/ Freedom_Not_Fear_2009 </li></ul></ul>Q & A