Hendrik Niefeld

Privacy on the internet is stuck in a vicious circle involving tech and legislation, which we need to escape.

It takes far too long for legislators to transpose directives. The data industry uses an arsenal of dark patterns and technical stunts to creatively interpret or completely circumvent the applicable law.

A new approach is needed to solve this problem in a sustainable way and make the web a better place again. In our talk we will give a brief insight into problematic patterns and techniques as well as approaches to overcome them.

We are Frederik and Hendrik. We're building a fair and open web analytics tool and want to share what we discovered along the way with the FOSDEM audience. This lightning talk will be given by us together.

Privacy on the internet is an arms race between legislators and web developers that we need to stop.

Hi there. We are Frederik and Hendrik. We're building a fair and open web analytics tool and want to share what we discovered along the way with the FROSCON audience. Privacy on the Internet is more and more turning into an arms race between legislators and web developers. On the one hand, it takes far too long for legislators to transpose directives. On the other hand, the data industry uses an arsenal of dark patterns and technical stunts to creatively interpret or completely circumvent the applicable law. Because regulation will always fail at the technical level, it is impossible to escape this vicious circle in this manner. A new approach is needed to solve this problem in a sustainable way and make the web a better place again. In our lecture we examine problematic procedures and techniques in detail and develop approaches to overcome them.

Other people: Frederik Ring