Überwachung

This article follows the publication of La Quadrature du Net’s investigation ʻCriminalization of encryption: the 8 december caseʼ. It has been signed by more than 130 individuals and organisations. The full list of signatories is available here.

One single app to rent a hotel room, prove your age, your educational, financial or health certificates, or to access digital public and private services? Sounds convenient? Well, it is. But if done wrong, it will be equally easy for corporations, authorities or even bad actors to create highly detailed profiles about yourself – spanning a vast area of your everyday life – or abuse this treasure of sensitive personal information in other ways.

Dieser Artikel ist in leicht abgeänderter Form u.a. auch auf englisch und französisch in der Zeitung LeMonde erschienen.