Digital rights at re:publica 2015

The re:publica 2015, one of the biggest digital culture conferences in the world, took place on 5-7 May in Berlin, Germany. Many EDRi members and observers contributed to this year’s event motto “Finding Europe”. We have therefore collected the most exciting talks from our network:

Internet censorship around Europe since ACTA (in English)

Joe McNamee & Kirsten Fiedler, European Digital Rights

Disrupting the Surveillance Ecosystem (in English)

Jérémie Zimmermann, La Quadrature du Net; Raegan MacDonald, Access; Parker Higgins, Electronic Frontier Foundation

The NSA are not the Stasi: Godwin for mass surveillance (in English)

Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Who is more real: me or my digital profile? (in English)

Katarzyna Szymielewicz, Panoptykon Foundation

Copyright reform, state of play (in English)

Walter van Holst, Vrijschrift; Ásta Helgadóttir, IMMI

Spy Animals! (in English)

Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Claudio Guarnieri

Finding a European way on internet governance (in English)

Frederic Dubois, Internet Policy Review; Andrea Calderaro, Institute for Internet & Society; Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party (Sweden); Maciej Tomaszewski, DG CONNECT, European Commission; Raegan MacDonald, Access

Next up on the political agenda: Cybersecurity (in English)

Anita Gohdes, Uni Mannheim / HRDAG; Becky Kazansky, Tactical Tech; Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Cathleen Berger, Federal Foreign Office

Netzneutralität – Endspurt in Europa (in German)

Thomas Lohninger, Initiative für Netzfreiheit

Netzpolitischer Abend des Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. (in German)

Die Netzgemeinde ist am Ende. Jetzt geht’s los. (in German)

Markus Beckedahl, netzpolitik.org & Digiges; Leonhard Dobusch, Freie Universität Berlin

Podcast: Demystifying the algorithm: who designs your life? (in English)

Hans de Zwart, Bits of Freedom