"The code of power: Who controls the digital space?"
Adult education centre invites you to an online lecture on 25 June, 7.30 to 9 pm
The Chemnitz Adult Education Centre invites you to an online lecture with a highly topical subject about the digital space used every day on Thursday, 25 June, from 7.30 to 9 pm. Attendance is free of charge.
Registration is possible by email or online until midnight on 24 June. An access link to the online lecture will be sent by email on the day of the event. Participants can follow the lecture as a live stream and take part in the discussion via a live chat.
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Journalist and author Adrian Lobe analyses the power shifts in the digital society. Not much is left of the utopian idea of the internet as a place of free knowledge and independence: governments are censoring the internet and erecting electronic barriers, secret services are working with tech giants to siphon off private user data, troll factories are spreading fake news and torpedoing election campaigns.
According to Adrian Lobe, the internet is broken. And nobody has a strategy for fixing it. Much worse: we are building our own data prison with sensors, cameras and microphones. Is privacy finally over?
In this online lecture, the speaker explains the pitfalls of smart gadgets that are marketed as supposed "digital servants". And he shows solutions on how to free yourself from the grip of the data octopuses.
Adrian Lobe studied political science and law and works for various newspapers in German-speaking countries. In 2017, he received the first journalism prize from the Data Protection Foundation.
This event is part of the series "vhs.wissen live - the digital science programme" as a cooperation between the VHS Chemnitz and the adult education centres in the Erding and SüdOst districts of Munich.