Digital courage

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Digital courage
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legal form registered association
founding May 31, 1987
Seat Bielefeld ( ⊙ coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 10.1 ″  E )
precursor Association for the promotion of public moving and immobile data traffic e. V (FoeBuD) until Nov 2012
purpose Freedom of information , data protection
Chair Rena Tangens , padeluun
Managing directors Detlev Sieber
sales 613,676 euros (2017)
Employees 13 (2018)
Website www.digitalcourage.de

Digitalcourage (analogous to courage ) - up to rename in November 2012 FoeBuD ( Association for the F romotion of ö public b ewegten and u nbewegten D atenverkehrs e. ) - is a 1987 association founded for technological or socio-politically interested people based in Bielefeld , who is primarily committed to unhindered communication ( freedom of information ) and data protection. Other topics such as politics , the environment and human rights are also fields of activity of the non-profit association. Known members are u. a. Rena Tangens and padeluun .

The association is a member of the following organizations: Working Group on Data Storage , C3S , EDRi , FIfF , Communication and New Media eV , Software for Engaged eV , torservers.net and the Whistleblower Network . Digitalcourage is also part of the Chaos Family, and its co-founders Rena Tangens and padeluun are honorary members of the CCC .

Data protection campaigns

Cartoon Windows 10 logo on the occasion of the BigBrotherAwards 2018 Category Technology to Microsoft Germany
CC-BY-SA / Logo: Microsoft Corporation; Assembly : digital courage
Copied fingerprint from Wolfgang Schäuble , stamp of the association
StopRFID campaign logo

Digital courage is best known for the German " Big Brother Awards ". This negative prize is awarded to companies, institutions and individuals who, in the opinion of the jury, have particularly blatantly violated the principles of informational self-determination .

In order to create more awareness of the data protection problems of discount and bonus programs , the association issued the so-called Privacy Card . This was similar in design to a regular Payback card and also bore the number of a normal card registered with the club. This enabled discount points to be collected for the club without revealing personal data and at the same time diluted the profile. After half a year, when 2,000 such cards were already in use, Payback blocked the underlying card and terminated the contract.

Digitalcourage has been dealing with RFID since October 2003 and launched the StopRFID campaign. The subject of this project is a critical accompaniment to the introduction of RFID technology.

The association is a signatory of the joint declaration on the draft law on data retention by the data retention working group and a supporter of the freedom instead of fear demonstrations .

In March 2010 the association organized a constitutional complaint against the ELENA procedure . On March 31, 2010, she submitted the second largest constitutional complaint to date, with 22,005 complainants. The complaint requests that

Sections 97 and 98 of Book Four of the Social Code in the version of the Act on the Procedure for Electronic Remuneration Proofs (ELENA Procedure Act) of March 28, 2009, Federal Law Gazette I No. 17, issued on April 1, 2009, are deemed incompatible with Art. 2 Paragraph 1 i. V. m. Art. 1 Paragraph 1 and Art. 4 Paragraph 1 in conjunction with Article 140 of the Basic Law in conjunction with Article 136 Paragraph 3 of the Weimar Constitution.

Every December, the association offers an Advent calendar on its website with tips on "digital self-defense".

Operation of communication services for the general public

A group of IT administrators, some of whom are volunteers, run some Internet services for the association in the general interest. You can find it on the website under the heading Swarm Support . Some examples:

Anti-censorship DNS server

On the occasion of the draft law to combat child pornography in communication networks , which is intended to regulate the blocking of websites in Germany , Digitalcourage has been operating its own public censorship-free DNS server since April 17, 2009. Due to the great demand, a second DNS server of this type was put into operation on April 26, 2018, which can be reached under the IP address 46.182.19.48 or 2a02: 2970: 1002 :: 18. The server supports DNS-over-TLS and, unlike many other DNS servers, does not log normal user requests.

Tor exit relay

Digitalcourage operates exit relays in the Tor network. The reason is: "If you want to protect your privacy on the Internet, surf with Tor."

Appointment finder and survey tool

Since mid-2019, Digitalcourage has been operating a Framadate instance called Nuudel (nuudel.digitalcourage.de), which can also be accessed via the onion site (vopmm4275ay6igoc.onion).

Historically: BIONIC and the Zamir Transnational Network

In the club In 1987 BIONIC - mailbox . The guiding principles of the system were the renunciation of censorship and unrestricted rights for system operators. Instead, BIONIC was set up as a joint project and was the birthplace of many other earlier mailbox networks such as B. the former network Solinet , which was mainly used by trade unionists . BIONIC thus became the early home of many left and left alternative groups.

Eric Bachman, a BIONIC user and member of the association, created the Zamir Transnational Network from 1991 with the support of padeluun and others . This was a reaction to the war that had started in Yugoslavia at that time . Za mir means "For peace ". The network of the same name was used for inexpensive and simple networking of local peace groups to form a non-violent resistance . Here, too, came due to the limited possibilities. For example, the system in Sarajevo has only three telephone lines available to supply 1,500 users - the Zerberus software is used. Little by little, more mailboxes were formed. B. in Ljubljana ( Slovenia ), Zagreb and Pakrac (both Croatia ), Belgrade ( Serbia ), Tuzla ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) and Pristina ( Kosovo ). These systems were connected to one another via the Zamir network.

Awards

In 2008 the association was awarded a Theodor Heuss Medal for its commitment in the field of civil rights and data protection, in particular as the host of the German Big Brother Awards .

In April 2014, Digitalcourage e. V. the For..Net-Award presented by the University of Passau as a "special prize for commitment in the field of data protection". The digital courage e. V. developed and sold "PrivacyDongle". This is a USB stick that provides a combination of the Firefox browser and the Tor anonymization software that can run without installation .

In September 2014, Digitalcourage e. V. the Taz Panter Prize as the jury's prize.

The founding chairwoman, Rena Tangens , received the “Personality of Consumer Protection 2015” award from the German Consumer Protection Foundation in June 2015 . In March 2016 she was also awarded the Bielefeld Women's Prize, an award from the Federation of Women's Associations and the regional newspaper Neue Westfälische . In April 2018, it was decided to award the City of Bielefeld the Badge of Honor to Rena Tangens and padeluun. The reason given was that both of them had done their work for data protection and human rights for the well-being and reputation of Bielefeld.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digitalcourage eV: Transparency Report 2016. Accessed on June 13, 2019 .
  2. ^ CCC: Chaos Family. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Frank Rosengart: The BigBrotherAward 2018 in the technology category goes to Microsoft Germany. In: BigBrotherAwards.de. Digitalcourage eV, April 20, 2018, accessed on December 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FoeBuD: Constitutional complaint against ELENA only possible symbolically! ( Memento of September 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), as seen on April 29, 2010.
  5. ↑ ELENA procedural law. FoeBuD, March 31, 2012, archived from the original on June 30, 2012 ; Retrieved April 29, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Probably means: Art. 136 Paragraph 3 Constitutions of the German Reich / Weimar Constitution of August 11, 1919. verfassungen.de, February 2, 2002, accessed on April 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Meinhard Starostik: Constitutional Complaint ELENA - 1 BvR 902/10 - Copy of the constitutional complaint submitted to the Federal Constitutional Court on March 31, 2010 on behalf of 22005 complainants. (PDF (170.8 kB)) starostik.de, April 14, 2010, accessed on April 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Swarm Support at Digitalcourage: https://digitalcourage.de/swarm-support
  9. ↑ Digital courage: Censorship-free DNS server from August 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ Mike Kuketz: Digital Courage: Another uncensored DNS server. April 26, 2018, accessed on March 28, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Trusted DNS Servers. In: Privacy Handbook. Retrieved March 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ https://digitalcourage.de/support/tor
  13. ↑ Framadate is free and open source software developed by the French NGO Framasoft en / fr .
  14. ↑ Website: https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/ - Onion-Site: http://vopmm4275ay6igoc.onion/
  15. ↑ Daniel Berger: Digital courage launches data-saving doodle alternative. In: Heise -Newsticker. July 2, 2018, accessed July 2, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Nuudel: the survey tool that doesn't save. In: Digital courage. January 27, 2020, accessed March 28, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Press release from the University of Passau on the presentation of the For… Net Award on December 19, 2013
  18. ↑ Report in the taz , accessed on August 17, 2015
  19. ↑ verbraucherstiftung.de: Federal Consumer Protection Award - Prize winner Rena Tangens , accessed on August 17, 2015
  20. ↑ Second Bielefeld Women's Prize goes to Rena Tangens , article in the Neue Westfälische on March 5, 2016, accessed on March 5, 2016
  21. ↑ https://www.radiobielefeld.de/nachrichten/lokalnachrichten/detailansicht/ehrennadel-fuer-tangens-und-padeluun.html
  22. ↑ https://www.bielefeld.de/de/pressedienst/detail.html?id=986606