TEDGlobal 2012
Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
Malte Spitz: Dit telefonselskab overvåger dig
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Hvilken slags data samler ens telefonselskab? Malte Spitz var ikke for bekymret da han bad sin operatør i Tyskland om at dele den information de gemte om ham. Adskillige ubesvarede anmodninger og en retssag senere, modtog Spitz 35.830 linjer med kode -- en detaljeret, næsten minut for minut beretning over et halvt år af hans liv.
Malte Spitz - Politician, data activist
Malte Spitz asked his cell phone carrier what it knew about him -- and mapped what he found out. Full bio
Malte Spitz asked his cell phone carrier what it knew about him -- and mapped what he found out. Full bio
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Hi. This is my mobile phone.
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Hej. Dette er min mobiltelefon.
00:24
A mobile phone can change your life,
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En mobiltelefon kan ændre ens liv,
00:31
and a mobile phone gives you individual freedom.
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og en mobiltelefon giver en individuel frihed.
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With a mobile phone,
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Med en mobiltelefon,
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you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria.
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kan man tage et billede af forbrydelser mod menneskeheden i Syrien.
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With a mobile phone,
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Med en mobiltelefon,
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you can tweet a message
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kan man tweete en besked
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and start a protest in Egypt.
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og begynde at protestere i Egypten.
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And with a mobile phone,
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Og med en mobiltelefon,
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you can record a song, load it up to
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man kan optage en sang, oploade det til
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SoundCloud and become famous.
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SoundCloud og blive berømt.
01:05
All this is possible with your mobile phone.
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Alt dette er muligt med ens mobiltelefon.
01:10
I'm a child of 1984,
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Jeg er et barn af 1984,
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and I live in the city of Berlin.
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og jeg bor i byen Berlin.
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Let's go back to that time, to this city.
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Lad os gå tilbage til den tid, til denne by.
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Here you can see
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Her kan man se
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how hundreds of thousands of people
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hvordan hundredetusinde mennesker
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stood up and protested for change.
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gør modstand og protesterer for forandring.
01:29
This is autumn 1989,
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Dette er efteråret 1989,
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and imagine that all those people standing up
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og forestil jer alle disse mennesker der gør oprør
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and protesting for change had a
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og protesterer for en forandring havde en
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mobile phone in their pocket.
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mobiltelefon i deres lomme.
01:42
Who in the room has a mobile phone with you?
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Hvem i lokalet har en mobiltelefon med sig?
01:44
Hold it up.
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Hold den op.
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Hold your phones up, hold your phones up!
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Hold jeres telefon oppe, hold jeres telefon oppe!
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Hold it up. An Android, a Blackberry, wow.
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Hold den op. En Android, en Blackberry, wow.
01:51
That's a lot. Almost everybody today has a mobile phone.
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Det er mange. Næsten alle i dag har en mobiltelefon.
01:58
But today I will talk about me and my mobile phone,
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Men i dag vil jeg tale om mig og min mobiltelefon,
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and how it changed my life.
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og hvordan den ændrede mit liv.
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And I will talk about this.
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Og jeg vil tale om dette.
02:09
These are 35,830 lines of information.
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Der er 35.830 linjer med information.
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Raw data.
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Rå data.
02:17
And why are these informations there?
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Og hvorfor er disse informationer der?
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Because in the summer of 2006,
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Fordi i sommeren 2006,
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the E.U. Commission tabled a directive.
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fremlagde EU Kommisionen et direktiv.
02:28
This directive [is] called Data Retention Directive.
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Dette direktiv hedder Data Retention Directive.
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This directive says that each phone company in Europe,
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Direktivet siger at hvert telefon selskab i Europa,
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each Internet service company all over Europe,
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hver Internet udbyder i hele Europa,
02:42
has to store a wide range of information about the users.
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skal gemme en bred mængde information om brugerne.
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Who calls whom? Who sends whom an email?
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Hvem ringer til hvem? Hvem sender en email til hvem?
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Who sends whom a text message?
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Hvem sender en sms til hvem?
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And if you use your mobile phone, where you are.
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Og hvis man bruger ens mobiltelefon, hvor man er.
02:57
All this information is stored for at least six months,
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Al denne information gemmes i minimum seks måneder,
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up to two years by your phone company
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op til to år af ens telefon selskab
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or your Internet service provider.
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eller ens Internet udbyder.
03:10
And all over Europe, people stood up and said,
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Og overalt i Europa, demonstrerede folk og sagde,
03:14
"We don't want this."
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"Vi vil ikke have dette."
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They said, we don't want this data retention.
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De sagde, vi vil ikke have denne databevaring.
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We want self-determination in the digital age,
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Vi vil have selvbestemmelse i den digitale alder,
03:23
and we don't want that phone companies and Internet companies
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og vi vil ikke have at telefon selskaberne og internet udbyderne
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have to store all this information about us.
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skal gemme al denne information om os.
03:30
They were lawyers, journalists, priests,
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De var advokater, journalister, præster,
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they all said: "We don't want this."
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de sagde alle: "Vi vil ikke have dette."
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And here you can see, like 10 thousands of people
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Og her kan man se, noget i retningen af titusindevis af mennesker
03:39
went out on the streets of Berlin and said,
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der gik på gaden i Berlin og sagde,
03:42
"Freedom, not fear."
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"Frihed, ikke frygt."
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And some even said, this would be Stasi 2.0.
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Og nogen sagde endda, at dette ville blive Stasi 2.0.
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Stasi was the secret police in East Germany.
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Stasi var det hemmelige politi i Østtyskland.
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And I also ask myself, does it really work?
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Og jeg spørger også mig selv, virker det virkelig?
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Can they really store all this information about us?
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Kan de virkelig gemme al denne information om os?
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Every time I use my mobile phone?
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Hver gang jeg bruger min mobiltelefon?
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So I asked my phone company, Deutsche Telekom,
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Så jeg spurgte mit telefonselskab, Deutsche Telekom,
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which was at that time the largest phone company in Germany,
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der på det tidspunkt var det største telefonselskab i Tyskland,
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and I asked them, please,
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og jeg spurgte dem, vær sød at
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send me all the information you have stored about me.
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sende mig al den information I har gemt om mig.
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And I asked them once, and I asked them again,
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Og jeg bad dem om det en gang, og jeg bad dem om det igen,
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and I got no real answer. It was only blah blah answers.
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og jeg fik ikke noget rigtigt svar. Det var kun blah blah svar.
04:25
But then I said, I want to have this information,
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Men så sagde jeg, jeg vil have denne information,
04:28
because this is my life you are protocoling.
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fordi dette er mit liv I fører protokol over.
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So I decided to start a lawsuit against them,
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Så jeg besluttede at starte en retssag mod dem,
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because I wanted to have this information.
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fordi jeg ville have denne information.
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But Deutsche Telekom said, no,
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Men Deutsche Telekom sagde, nej,
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we will not give you this information.
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vi vil ikke give dig denne information.
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So at the end, I had a settlement with them.
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Så i sidste ende, lavede jeg et forlig med dem.
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I'll put down the lawsuit
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Jeg stopper retssagen
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and they will send me all the information I ask for.
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og de sender mig al den information jeg spørger efter.
04:54
Because in the mean time,
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Fordi i mellemtiden,
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the German Constitutional Court ruled
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havde Tysklands Forfatningsdomstol afsagt en kendelse
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that the implementation of this E.U. directive
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at implementationen af dette EU direktiv
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into German law was unconstitutional.
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i tysk lovgivning var forfatningsstridig.
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So I got this ugly brown envelope
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Så jeg fik denne grimme, brune konvolut
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with a C.D. inside.
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med en CD indeni.
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And on the C.D., this was on.
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Og på den CD, var der dette.
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Thirty-five thousand eight hundred thirty lines of information.
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Femogtredive tusinde otte hundrede og tredive linjer med information.
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At first I saw it, and I said, okay,
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Først kiggede jeg på det og sagde, okay,
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it's a huge file. Okay.
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det er en kæmpe fil. Okay.
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But then after a while I realized,
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Men så efter noget tid blev jeg klar over,
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this is my life.
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dette er mit liv.
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This is six months of my life,
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Dette er seks måneder af mit liv,
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into this file.
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i denne fil.
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So I was a little bit skeptical, what should I do with it?
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Så jeg var en smule skeptisk, hvad skulle jeg gøre med det?
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Because you can see where I am,
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Fordi man kan se hvor jeg er,
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where I sleep at night,
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hvor jeg sover om natten,
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what I am doing.
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hvad jeg laver.
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But then I said, I want to go out with this information.
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Men så sagde jeg, jeg vil ud med denne information.
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I want to make them public.
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Jeg vil gøre dem offentlige.
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Because I want to show the people what does data retention mean.
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Fordi jeg vil vise mennesker hvad dette data bevaring betyder.
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So together with Zeit Online and Open Data City, I did this.
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Så sammen med Zeit Online og Open Data City, gjorde jeg dette.
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This is a visualization of six months of my life.
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Dette er en visualisering af seks måneder af mit liv.
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You can zoom in and zoom out,
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Man kan zoome ind og ud,
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you can wind back and fast forward.
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man kan spole tilbage og spole frem.
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You can see every step I take.
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Man kan se hvert skridt jeg tager.
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And you can even see
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Og man kan endda se
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how I go from Frankfurt by train
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hvordan jeg tager toget fra Frankfurt
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to Cologne, and how often I call in between.
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til Cologne, og hvor tit jeg ringer ind i mellem.
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All this is possible with this information.
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Alt dette er muligt med denne information.
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That's a little bit scary.
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Det er en lille smule uhyggeligt.
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But it is not only about me.
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Men det handler ikke kun om mig.
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It's about all of us.
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Det handler om os allesammen.
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First, it's only like, I call my wife and she calls me,
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For det første, det er kun ligesom, jeg ringer til min kone og hun ringer til mig,
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and we talk to each other a couple of times.
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og vi snakker med hinanden et par gange.
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And then there are some friends calling me,
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Og så er der nogle venner der ringer til mig,
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and they call each other.
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og de ringer til hinanden.
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And after a while you are calling you,
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Og efter et stykke tid ringer man til sig selv,
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and you are calling you, and you have this great
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og man ringer til sig selv, og man har dette store
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communication network.
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kommunikations netværk.
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But you can see how your people are communicating with each other,
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Men man kan se hvordan ens folk kommunikerer med hinanden,
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what times they call each other, when they go to bed.
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hvilke tidspunkter de ringer til hinanden, hvornår de går i seng.
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You can see all of this.
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Man kan se alt dette.
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You can see the hubs, like who are the leaders in the group.
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Man kan se midtpunkterne, ligesom hvem der er lederne i en gruppe.
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If you have access to this information,
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Hvis man har adgang til denne information,
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you can see what your society is doing.
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kan man se hvad ens samfund laver.
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If you have access to this information,
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Hvis man har adgang til denne information,
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you can control your society.
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kan man kontrollere ens samfund.
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This is a blueprint for countries like China and Iran.
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Dette er en arbejdstegning for lande som Kina og Iran.
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This is a blueprint how to survey your society,
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Dette er en arbejdstegning for hvordan man skal overvåge ens samfund,
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because you know who talks to whom,
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fordi man ved hvem der taler med hvem,
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who sends whom an email, all this is possible
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hvem der sender hvem en email, alt dette er muligt
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if you have access to this information.
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hvis man har adgang til denne information.
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And this information is stored for at least six months
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Og denne information er gemt i minimum seks måneder
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in Europe, up to two years.
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i Europa, op til to år.
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Like I said at the beginning,
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Ligesom jeg sagde i starten,
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imagine that all those people on the streets of Berlin
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forestil jer at alle disse mennesker på gaderne i Berlin
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in autumn of 1989
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i efteråret 1989
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had a mobile phone in their pocket.
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havde en mobiltelefon i deres lomme.
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And the Stasi would have known who took part at this protest,
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Og Stasi ville have vist hvem der tog del i denne demonstration,
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and if the Stasi would have known
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og hvis Stasi havde vidst det
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who are the leaders behind it,
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hvem der er lederne bag det,
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this may never have happened.
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ville dette måske aldrig være sket.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall would maybe not [have been] there.
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Berlinmurens fald ville måske ikke [have været] der.
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And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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Og i efterspillet, heller ikke faldet af jerntæppet.
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Because today, state agencies and companies
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Fordi i dag, statsorganer og firmaer
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want to store as much information as they can get about us,
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vil gemme så meget information som de kan få om os,
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online and offline.
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online og offline.
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They want to have the possibility to track our lives,
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De vil have muligheden for at følge vores liv,
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and they want to store them for all time.
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og de vil gemme dem i al evighed.
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But self-determination and living in the digital age
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Men selvbestemmelse og det at leve i den digitale alder
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is no contradiction.
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er ikke modsætninger.
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But you have to fight for your self-determination today.
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Men man skal kæmpe for selvbestemmelse i dag.
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You have to fight for it every day.
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Man skal kæmpe for det hver dag.
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So, when you go home,
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Så, når man går hjem,
09:05
tell your friends
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fortæl jeres venner
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that privacy is a value of the 21st century,
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at privatlivet er en værdi i det 21 århundrede,
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and it's not outdated.
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og det er ikke umoderne.
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When you go home, tell your representative
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Når I går hjem, fortæl jeres repræsentant
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only because companies and state agencies have the possibility
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at bare fordi firmaer og statsorganer har muligheden
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to store certain information, they don't have to do it.
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for at gemme bestemte informationer, behøver de ikke at gøre det.
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And if you don't believe me,
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Og hvis I ikke tror på mig,
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ask your phone company what information they store about you.
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spørg jeres telefonselskab hvilken information de gemmer om jer.
09:37
So, in the future, every time you use your mobile phone,
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Så, i fremtiden, hver gang I bruger jeres mobiltelefon,
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let it be a reminder to you
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lad det være en påmindelse til jer
09:47
that you have to fight for self-determination in the digital age.
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at man skal kæmpe for selvbestemmelse i den digitale alder.
09:51
Thank you.
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Tak.
09:52
(Applause)
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(Bifald)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Malte Spitz - Politician, data activistMalte Spitz asked his cell phone carrier what it knew about him -- and mapped what he found out.
Why you should listen
German Green Party politician Malte Spitz is an expert on digital change and privacy.
In 2009, Spitz went to court to obtain the information that his cell phone operator, Deutsche Telekom, gathered (and kept) about his activity. The results astonished him. Over the course of six months, they had tracked his geographical location and what he was doing with his phone more than 35,000 times. Working with the German online news site Zeit Online, an infographic was created that shows Spitz's activity across an interactive timeline, combined DT's geolocation data with information relating to his life as a politician, such as Twitter feeds, blog entries and website. By pushing the play button, viewers can set off on a detail-rich trip through six months of his life. And more, because he keeps asking the telecom company for his most recent data.
Spitz is the author of the book What Are You Doing with My Data? and has contributed to international publications, such as the New York Times and The Guardian. Spitz lives with his wife and two kids in Berlin.
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