Jérémie Zimmermann

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Zimmermann at an event organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2013

Jérémie Zimmermann (* 1978 in Paris ) is a French computer scientist and internet activist. He is committed to free software, civil rights on the Internet and sustainable well-being of political activists.

Life

From 2004 to 2014 Zimmermann was a board member of the April Association (Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre) for the promotion of Free Software in the francophone area, which works closely with the Free Software Foundation .

In 2008 he was one of the co-founders and until 2014 spokesman for the NGO La Quadrature du Net , which campaigns for civil rights on the Internet.

In 2014, together with Emily King, he founded Hacking With Care , an interdisciplinary collective of hacker activists, therapists , masseurs , artists and sociologists .

Jérémie is a member of the five-person ethics committee (Comité de déontologie) of the French association Nos oignons , founded in 2013 , which is primarily committed to the operation of the Internet infrastructure for the anonymizing gateway (network) .

Zimmermann has lived in Berlin since 2016.

Publications

In 2012 he was on Julian Assange's TV talk show The World Tomorrow together with Jacob Appelbaum and Andy Müller-Maguhn on the subject of cypherpunks .

The book Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann: Cypherpunks: Our Freedom and the Future of the Internet was created on the basis of these broadcasts . Campus, Frankfurt, M.; New York, NY 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39913-3 (American English: Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet .).

Jérémie Zimmermann: Snowden and the future of our communication architecture . In: Markus Beckedahl, Andre Meister (Ed.): Monitored World - Edward Snowden and the greatest surveillance scandal in history . newthinking communications, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8442-7366-3 . online [1]

Awards

In 2012 he was honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation with the EFF Pioneer Award for his contribution to the fight against the trade agreement ACTA , which was rejected by the European Parliament after massive protests .

Web links

Commons : Jérémie Zimmermann  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historique du conseil d'administration. april.org Association pour la Promotion et la Recherche en Informatique Libre, accessed on March 15, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ About hacking with care. Retrieved March 15, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Comité de déontologie. nos-oignons.net, accessed on September 25, 2018 (French).
  4. ↑ Assange 'The World Tomorrow' - Ep 8: Cypherpunks Part 1 . Digitaljournal.com. 5th June 2012.
  5. ↑ Kevin J. O'Brien: Europe and Consumer Groups at Odds Over Restricted Net Access . In: The New York Times , June 6, 2012. 
  6. ↑ Hardware Hacker, Anti-ACTA Activist, and Groundbreaking Anonymity Group Win EFF Pioneer Awards | Electronic Frontier Foundation . Eff.org. August 27, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Jérémie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French computer scientist and co-founder of the Parisian NGO La Quadrature du Net
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris