How we can use technology to increase our freedom - Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands 1. How we can use tech to increase our Freedom and create a Better Future and outsmart governments and companies who want the opposite Matthijs Pontier, Ph.D Candidate #2 Piratenpartij Amsterdam Vice-president ENCOD 2. Contents: • Mass-surveillance (sleepwet) • Privacy protection / Safe communication • Platform capitalism and the harms of monopolization of tech • Cooperative alternatives • Darkweb marketplaces • E-Democracy • Universal Basic Income Contents Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 3.  Free sharing of information, art and culture  Evidence-based policy with long-term vision  Stimulate self-determination, but keep rights  Trust civilians vs Distrust ‘power'  Enthusiastic about tech, but alert on risks  Tech to empower people; not to repress Basic principles PPNL Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 4. Why do they call the WIV dragnet surveillance? 5. How do you find a needle in a haystack? 6. By making the haystack bigger?  More data is leading to less safety 7. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 8. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 9. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 10. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 11. Privacy inperken voor veiligheid? 1. Niet effectief 2. Leidt tot ongezonde machtsverhouding 3. Privacy juist voorwaarde voor veiligheid 4. Er bestaan prima alternatieven 12. The government won’t protect your privacy Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 13. Secret services are keeping our devices unsafe because they want to hack us Dr. Matthijs Pontier, Laat je niet meeslepen Hacking agencies: Keeping us all unsafe 14. What’s wrong with the WIV? Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom 15. What’s wrong with the WIV? 17. Tech companies (like cloud services) will move out for safe harbours Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom Tech economy 18. Enrypt your e-mail Protonmail Encrypt phone Signal adblockers DNT uBlock / DNT TOR VPN

1. How we can use tech
to increase our Freedom
and create a Better Future
and outsmart governments and
companies who want the opposite
Matthijs Pontier, Ph.D
Candidate #2 Piratenpartij Amsterdam
Vice-president ENCOD

2. Contents:
• Mass-surveillance (sleepwet)
• Privacy protection / Safe communication
• Platform capitalism and the harms of monopolization of tech
• Cooperative alternatives
• Darkweb marketplaces
• E-Democracy
• Universal Basic Income
Contents
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

3.  Free sharing of information, art and culture
 Evidence-based policy with long-term vision
 Stimulate self-determination, but keep rights
 Trust civilians vs Distrust ‘power'
 Enthusiastic about tech, but alert on risks
 Tech to empower people; not to repress
Basic principles PPNL
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

4. Why do they call the WIV dragnet surveillance?

6. How do
you find a
needle in a
haystack?

7. By making the
haystack
bigger?
 More data
is leading to
less safety

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10. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

11. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

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15. Privacy inperken voor veiligheid?
1. Niet effectief
2. Leidt tot ongezonde machtsverhouding
3. Privacy juist voorwaarde voor veiligheid
4. Er bestaan prima alternatieven

16. The government won’t protect your privacy
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

18. Secret services are keeping our devices unsafe because they want to hack us
Dr. Matthijs Pontier, Laat je niet meeslepen
Hacking agencies: Keeping us all unsafe

20. What’s wrong with the WIV?
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

21. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

22. Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom
What’s wrong with the WIV?

24. Tech companies (like cloud services) will move out for safe harbours
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom
Tech economy

25. Enrypt your e-mail Protonmail
Encrypt phone / messaging Signal
Use adblockers and DNT uBlock / DNT
Use TOR browser and VPN
Don’t use services from Google, Facebook or Uber
If something is free, YOU (or actually, your data) are the product
Removing something from the internet can be practically impossible
Privacy: DIY Solutions
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

26. Money sovereignity
Pay cash wherever possible
Demand paying cash where it’s not possible
For online transactions, use cryptocurrency
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

29. Monopolization
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

30. The bigger the
company
-> Bigger power
concentration
-> Bigger chance that
this company will
use its power in
malicious ways
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

31. Need to stop corporate surveillance
Regulate Big Business vs
More freedom for small startups

32. Profiling
Big Data algorithms get the same
bias as their makers / training data
This increases discrimination of
stigmatized groups
(and some will misuse it for
justification)
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018,
How we can use tech to increase our freedom

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35. Smart technology
Als technologie voor je denkt
bepalen programmeurs dan wat je denkt?
Dr. Matthijs Pontier, Piratenpartij – HvA, HBO Rechten, 2-9-2016

36. Who will control your ‘smart home’?
Hackers? Viruses?
The companies that
actually own your
device?
The AI that tells you
what to do?
Or will they get their
own will?
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

37. Techno-progressivism / Commons
Democratize the way technologies are built
Costs, risks, and benefits of tech are equally shared
Equal access to technologies
Develop tech in a way that promotes happiness

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40. 15-12-16

41. MDMA / Psychedelics in smartshops?

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Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to
increase our freedom

43.  Darkweb marketplaces move part of the supply-chain to legal market
 Safest way to buy (and sell) drugs
Darkweb marketplaces
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the
Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to
increase our freedom

44. Darkweb marketplaces
• More efficient supply-chain
• Transparency in the supply-chain
• Privacy for consumers
• Decentralization prevents power-concentration
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

45. 15-12-16
Darkweb marketplaces
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

46. e-Democracy
• Easily participate in democratic process
• Vote on ideas; not on parties or persons
• Power of Ideas replace the idea of power
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

47. • citiz
ens
.is
Better Alamance

48. • Everybody can add ideas
• Everybody can add arguments
• Best ideas and arguments automatically
come up
How does it work?
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

50. • Don’t vote once every few years, but always adjust vote
• Representation can differ per subject
• Representation is voluntary
• Makes representation personal; implies trust
Representation in an e-Democracy

51. Universal Basic Income
• Stops poverty and bureaucracy
• No need for control-systems that invade our privacy
• Level playing field on labour market
• Simulates entrepreneurship and creativity
Experiments 
 More education
 More entrepreneurship
 More useful work
 Less health problems
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

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53. Referendum

55. 15-12-16

56. Referendum - 21 maart
referendum
https://www.sleepwet.nl/

57. Stem tegen de WIV =
Stem voor een betere wet!
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

58. Sloop het sleepnet uit de WIV  Gerichte surveillance
3 jaar bewaartermijn moet veel korter
Deel onze data niet ongecontroleerd meer met dubieuze regimes
Geef geheime diensten geen toegang tot volledige databases
Geef veiligheidslekken altijd direct door aan fabrikanten
Bindend, onafhankelijk toezicht
Verbeterpunten

59. <slide e-democracy>
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

60. Thanks!
• @Matthijs85
• Matthijs Pontier
• matthijs@piratenpartij.nl
• http://www.piratenpartij.nl/
• @Piratenpartij /
@PP_amsterdam
Piratenpartij
• Stem 21 maart
• TEGEN de sleepwet (WIV)
• VOOR de Piratenpartij
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom

61. More reading and watching
Intelligent cars could boost highway capacity by 273%
Autonomous Car Platoons
How to hack a car
Zelfrijdende auto's moeten leren wie ze dood willen rijden
Vrij van controledrift, bureaucratie en armoede met een basisinkomen
Boek: Machine Medical Ethics
Zorgrobots, maar geen botte zorg
Crowdsource EU: People's Constitution
De toekomst van democratie volgens Matthijs Pontier van de Piratenpartij
Matthijs Pontier Ph.D, Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands, 25-02-2018, How we can use tech to increase our freedom