Jens Meiert

Social Responsibility

Politically, there are several things which displease yet anger me, including critical trends like the desire to sacrifice civil rights to buy imaginary safety, the general phenomenon to make populist, opportunistic, but totally shortsighted, no, stupid decisions, or implicit, obvious incompetence …

¶ December 24, 2008, filed under Politics.

Compared to What?

… is probably one of the most important questions there is. “Compared to what?” is the question that should be answered every time it is about data, be it presented in graphs, in newspapers, on websites, or when just talked about. Yet it is rarely answered, rarely …

¶ July 3, 2008, filed under Marketing, Design, Politics.

Dark Days for Germany

Yesterday, on the historically significant November 9, the German government approved a law that requires telecommunications providers to retain all customer communication data for a period of six months, also allowing authorities to gain access to stored communications …

¶ November 10, 2007, filed under Politics.

EU Intends to Punish People Searching for “Terrorism”

The European Commission apparently plans to control search for terms like “bomb”, “genocide”, and “terrorism”, according to German news sources like ZDF and Heise citing delegate Alexander Alvaro. The list presented by Heise currently refers to the German words “Bombe”, “töten”, “Völkermord”, …

¶ September 27, 2007, filed under Politics.

How Web Development Criticism and Privacy Concerns Fit Together

Some readers of my blog might wonder why I’m not only writing about web dev and other professional topics, but also about politics and privacy, among others. I try to focus on professional things, but there’s a reason for digressing, to me there sometimes is a similarity …

¶ September 7, 2007, filed under Web Development, Politics.

Terror Defense: The Contempt of Privacy

On deterioration of freedom and trust in people.

¶ June 18, 2007, filed under Politics.

Suspension of Civil Rights: At Least They’re Honest

On camera surveillance in Germany.

¶ February 7, 2007, filed under Politics.