IEEE TEMS: “Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe's ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure” (DigHum-Series)

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We are pleased to invite you to our next talk in our Lecture Series:

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1)

Topic: “Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe's ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure”
(scroll down for abstract and CV)

Speaker: Thomas Lohninger (epicenter.works)
Moderator: Erich Prem (eutema & Uni Wien, Austria)

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ABSTRACT “Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe's ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure”:

Digital Identity Systems are on the rise worldwide. While global majority countries already have ample experience with their pitfalls and human rights implications, Europe just concluded its big digital identity 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 presentation will showcase realistic use-cases of the technology from age verification, online identification, customer tracking up to replacing CAPTCHAs. We will discuss essential safeguards that attempt to make such systems of government certified personal data exchanges less dangerous in a world of surveillance capitalism and rising authoritarianism.

Short Bio of Thomas Lohninger:

Lohninger was a programmer and anthropologist in his former life. Net politics was his hobby until he worked intensively as a policy advisor for European Digital Rights (EDRi) on the EU law on net neutrality. Thomas was one of the driving forces behind the www.savetheinternet.eu campaign and has a strong work focus on net neutrality, data protection and mass surveillance. He has been active at epicenter.works since 2010 and has been the association’s managing director since 2014. He also writes on Netzpolitik.org, is a regular guest on the podcast Logbuch:Netzpolitik and a non-residential fellow at the Center of Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. He has been on the board of EDRi since 2019 and became Vice President of the European umbrella organisation in 2020.

Short Bio of Erich Prem:

DDr. Erich Prem is chief RTI strategy advisor and CEO of eutema GmbH. He is an internationally renowned expert in research and innovation strategy with more than two decades of work experience in research and innovation management and RTDI policy. Erich Prem is a certified managerial economist and works scientifically in artificial intelligence, research politics, innovation research and epistemology. He published more than 70 scientific papers and was a guest researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Dr. phil. (epistemology) from the University of Vienna, his Dr.tech. from TU Vienna where he also completed his master’s in computer science (Dipl.Ing). He was a lecturer at TU Vienna’s Informatics Innovation Center. He received his MBA in General Management from Donau University.