Working with D64 – Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt
A quick transparency update: I’m happy to share that I’ve recently started working with D64 — Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt, a large German digital rights membership organization. As…
Category: digital rights
New report out now: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field
We just published a new report about the state of digital civil society in Germany: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field (PDF)Published April 2024. Copyright Stiftung Mercator. Author…
Some thoughts after Mercator Forum
I’m on my way back home from Essen where I attended Mercator Forum, the foundation’s annual convening of its stakeholders, communities and grantee partners. This year it was…
Is it time to re-start building the internet?
Note: This is cross-posted from my newsletter, to which you can subscribe here. x Here are some thoughts that have been kicking around my head for some time.…
Thoughts on Tracking and Targeting
Over on Threads I had an exchange about targeted ads: are they better than generic ads? Is ad tracking really bad? I see some real, relevant and big…
Two threat models for algorithmic decision-making systems
There are two major threat models to consider when discussing algorithmic decision-making systems (ADM) — which I’ll get to in a moment. The other day, when I spoke to…
Stiftung Mercator launches new digital policy think tank “Agora Digitale Transformation”
It’s time to pull back the curtain on a project I’m extremely happy I’ve had the opportunity to work on for the last year or so: A new…