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incognito nation – exploring germany’s unique online privacy culture
Coming Soon – There is a German word that can end a conversation before it starts: Datenschutz. It translates as “data protection”, but in Germany it is less a legal term than a reflex. People tape over their webcams and refuse to give a phone number just to sign up for something. In 2010, more…
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internet’s decline – how to make world’s greatest invention unusable
Coming Soon – The world wide web was supposed to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements, a place to share ideas, learn anything and reach anyone. Today, reading a single article often means clicking through a cookie banner, a paywall and three clickbait headlines, only to land on a text that may have been written…
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the longest exile – life and times of friedrich ludwig breusch
Author’s Note: In May 2022, I picked up a project from my professor, Ercüment Çelik, at the University of Freiburg, while I was about to graduate from my master’s in Global Studies. It seemed simple at first. He was researching German professors from Freiburg who had to flee during the Nazi era and wanted to…