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SUMMARY:[Wien] Thomas Lohninger: Digital Public Infrastructure: Who Govern
 s the Operation System of the Digitised Society
DESCRIPTION:Digital Identity Systems are on the rise worldwide. While glob
 al majority countries already have ample experience with their pitfalls an
 d human rights implications\, Europe just concluded its big digital identi
 ty reform without any concern for the experiences of other regions. Thomas
  Lohninger works for Austria's biggest digital rights NGO epicenter.works 
 and has shaped the 2\,5 year negotiations for the new EU law. This present
 ation will showcase realistic use-cases of the technology from age verific
 ation\, online identification\, customer tracking up to replacing CAPTCHAs
 . We will discuss essentials safeguards that attempt to make such systems 
 of government certified personal data exchanges less dangerous in a world 
 of surveillance capitalism and rising authoritarianism. The speaker lead t
 he NGO coalition of privacy watchdogs that advocated for strong human righ
 ts safeguards in the EU legislation. He since became Chair of the UN DPI-s
 afeguards Governance Working Group\, advises the EU Commission on the tech
 nical specification of the new system\, is in the Jury of the German gover
 nment about their Wallet implementation. This talk tries to bridge the tec
 hnical\, legal and social implications of such systems and how society mig
 ht be shaped by what some are calling the operating system of modern socie
 ty.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Digital Identity Systems are on the rise w
 orldwide. While global majority countries already have ample experience wi
 th their pitfalls and human rights implications\, Europe just concluded it
 s big digital identity reform without any concern for the experiences of o
 ther regions. Thomas Lohninger works for Austria's biggest digital rights 
 NGO epicenter.works and has shaped the 2\,5 year negotiations for the new 
 EU law. This presentation will showcase realistic use-cases of the technol
 ogy from age verification\, online identification\, customer tracking up t
 o replacing CAPTCHAs. We will discuss essentials safeguards that attempt t
 o make such systems of government certified personal data exchanges less d
 angerous in a world of surveillance capitalism and rising authoritarianism
 . The speaker lead the NGO coalition of privacy watchdogs that advocated f
 or strong human rights safeguards in the EU legislation. He since became C
 hair of the UN DPI-safeguards Governance Working Group\, advises the EU Co
 mmission on the technical specification of the new system\, is in the Jury
  of the German government about their Wallet implementation. This talk tri
 es to bridge the technical\, legal and social implications of such systems
  and how society might be shaped by what some are calling the operating sy
 stem of modern society.</p>
LOCATION:TU Wien\, Faculty of Informatics\, Ground Floor\, Room HH EG 02\,
  Favoritenstraße 9-11\, 1040 Vienna (https://caiml.org/dighum/summerschoo
 l2025/venue/)
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