Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

Translator: Morton Bast Reviewer: Thu-Huong Ha

翻译人员: Li Li 校对人员: Li Sinn

Hi. This is my mobile phone.

嗨，这是我的手机

A mobile phone can change your life,

手机能改变人们的生活

and a mobile phone gives you individual freedom.

而且能带给你个人的自由。

With a mobile phone,

有了手机，

you can shoot a crime against humanity in Syria.

你能在叙利亚拍下危害人类的犯罪行为。

With a mobile phone,

有了手机，

you can tweet a message

你能在埃及上tweet发状态

and start a protest in Egypt.

并掀起一场抗议活动。

And with a mobile phone,

有了手机，

you can record a song, load it up to

你还能录下一首歌，然后上传到SoundCloud

SoundCloud and become famous.

并一夜成名。

All this is possible with your mobile phone.

这一切都是有可能的，只有你有手机。

I'm a child of 1984,

我生于1984年，

and I live in the city of Berlin.

我住在柏林这个城市。

Let's go back to that time, to this city.

让我们回到过去，回到1984的柏林。

Here you can see

你能看到

how hundreds of thousands of people

成千上万的人

stood up and protested for change.

站了起来，为了改变而抗议

This is autumn 1989,

这是1989年的秋天，

and imagine that all those people standing up

想象一下那些为了变革

and protesting for change had a

而站起来的人们，

mobile phone in their pocket.

如果在他们的口袋里都有一个手机，

Who in the room has a mobile phone with you?

现在这里谁有手机的？

Hold it up.

麻烦举一下。

Hold your phones up, hold your phones up!

把手机举起来，把手机举起来！

Hold it up. An Android, a Blackberry, wow.

举高了。安卓的，黑莓的，哇。

That's a lot. Almost everybody today has a mobile phone.

还真挺多的。如今几乎每个人都有个手机了。

But today I will talk about me and my mobile phone,

但今天我想讲下关于我和我的手机的故事，

and how it changed my life.

以及它是怎样改变我的生活的。

And I will talk about this.

听我讲一下

These are 35,830 lines of information.

这里有35830行的数据资料

Raw data.

都是原始数据

And why are these informations there?

为什么会在这里展示这些资料呢？

Because in the summer of 2006,

因为在2006年的夏天，

the E.U. Commission tabled a directive.

欧盟委员会推出了一条指令

This directive [is] called Data Retention Directive.

叫做“数据保留指令”

This directive says that each phone company in Europe,

这条指令的内容是，在欧洲的每家电讯公司

each Internet service company all over Europe,

在欧洲的每家互联网服务公司

has to store a wide range of information about the users.

必须对用户的数据资料进行大范围地保留

Who calls whom? Who sends whom an email?

谁给谁打电话了，谁给谁发邮件了

Who sends whom a text message?

谁给谁飞短信了

And if you use your mobile phone, where you are.

而且还要记录在哪里使用了手机

All this information is stored for at least six months,

所有这些信息都将被电讯公司保存，

up to two years by your phone company

保存半年到两年不等。

or your Internet service provider.

互联网服务商也一样。

And all over Europe, people stood up and said,

整个欧洲的人民都起来反映，

"We don't want this."

“我们并不想要这样”

They said, we don't want this data retention.

他们说，我们不要保留这些数据

We want self-determination in the digital age,

我们想在这个数字化的时代自己做主

and we don't want that phone companies and Internet companies

我们不要那些电讯公司和互联网服务公司

have to store all this information about us.

来为我们保留数据资料

They were lawyers, journalists, priests,

人民当中不乏律师，记者，牧师，

they all said: "We don't want this."

他们都说：“我们不需要这个。”

And here you can see, like 10 thousands of people

这些就是你所看到的，约一万民众

went out on the streets of Berlin and said,

走上柏林的街道，呼唤道，

"Freedom, not fear."

“要自由，不要恐惧”

And some even said, this would be Stasi 2.0.

有人甚至会说，这可能会变成Stasi的2.0版本

Stasi was the secret police in East Germany.

Stasi以前是东德的秘密警员

And I also ask myself, does it really work?

我也问过自己，真的会这样吗？

Can they really store all this information about us?

他们真的能储存关于我们的全部数据资料吗？

Every time I use my mobile phone?

每次我用手机，他们都会这样做吗？

So I asked my phone company, Deutsche Telekom,

所以我咨询了我的电讯公司，德国电信

which was at that time the largest phone company in Germany,

当时它是德国最大的电讯公司

and I asked them, please,

我告诉他们，

send me all the information you have stored about me.

麻烦把你们储存的关于我的数据资料都发给我

And I asked them once, and I asked them again,

我一而再，再而三地要求，

and I got no real answer. It was only blah blah answers.

结果就像石沉大海，得到的只是一些涟漪般的搪塞。

But then I said, I want to have this information,

但我还是坚持，我就是要我的数据资料，

because this is my life you are protocoling.

因为你们记录保存的是我的生活啊。

So I decided to start a lawsuit against them,

所以我决定对他们提出诉讼，

because I wanted to have this information.

因为我就是要拿回资料。

But Deutsche Telekom said, no,

但德国电信拒绝了，说

we will not give you this information.

我们不会给你的

So at the end, I had a settlement with them.

最后，我们达成了一个协议

I'll put down the lawsuit

我放弃诉讼

and they will send me all the information I ask for.

他们把我要求的数据资料发给我

Because in the mean time,

因为在这段期间，

the German Constitutional Court ruled

德国宪法法院明文规定了

that the implementation of this E.U. directive

将这项欧洲指令写入德国法律

into German law was unconstitutional.

是不符合宪法的。

So I got this ugly brown envelope

然后我收到了这个巨丑的牛皮信封

with a C.D. inside.

里面还有张光盘

And on the C.D., this was on.

在光盘里，就是你们看到的

Thirty-five thousand eight hundred thirty lines of information.

三万五千八百三十行的数据信息

At first I saw it, and I said, okay,

第一眼看到这些时，我无奈了

it's a huge file. Okay.

好吧，这文件还真挺大的

But then after a while I realized,

过了一会我意识到，

this is my life.

这是我的生活啊

This is six months of my life,

这是我半年的生活啊

into this file.

就在这个文档里面

So I was a little bit skeptical, what should I do with it?

然后我就有些顾虑了，我应该怎么处理这些数据？

Because you can see where I am,

因为你能看到我人在何处，

where I sleep at night,

我在哪过夜，

what I am doing.

我在干什么。

But then I said, I want to go out with this information.

然后我决定，摊开来，

I want to make them public.

把这些数据都公开

Because I want to show the people what does data retention mean.

因为我想让人们明白数据保留是怎么一回事儿

So together with Zeit Online and Open Data City, I did this.

所以在《时代在线 》和《城市开放资料》的帮助下，

This is a visualization of six months of my life.

我做了这个我半年生活的视觉图

You can zoom in and zoom out,

你可以放大和缩小

you can wind back and fast forward.

你能够回放和快进

You can see every step I take.

你能看到我的每一个脚印

And you can even see

你甚至能看到

how I go from Frankfurt by train

我是怎样坐火车从法兰克福市去到科隆市

to Cologne, and how often I call in between.

以及在路上我打电话的频率

All this is possible with this information.

有了这些数据资料，一切都成为了可能

That's a little bit scary.

这听起来有点可怕

But it is not only about me.

但这不单单是我一个人的事

It's about all of us.

而是我们大家都与之相关的

First, it's only like, I call my wife and she calls me,

首先，很简单，我给我妻子打电话，她也打给我

and we talk to each other a couple of times.

我们彼此通了几次话

And then there are some friends calling me,

然后又有些朋友打给我

and they call each other.

而且他们彼此也相互联系

And after a while you are calling you,

接着他又打给他，他又打给她，

and you are calling you, and you have this great

她又打给她，然后我们就组成了

communication network.

一个庞大的通讯网

But you can see how your people are communicating with each other,

但你却能看到里面的人都在和谁交流着

what times they call each other, when they go to bed.

什么时候他们会打电话，什么时候会去睡觉

You can see all of this.

一切都在眼皮底下

You can see the hubs, like who are the leaders in the group.

如果你得到了这些数据信息，

If you have access to this information,

你就知道谁是这个圈子的主导者

you can see what your society is doing.

你也能知道你的社交圈都在做些什么

If you have access to this information,

如果你得到了这些数据信息，

you can control your society.

那么你就能操控你的社交圈

This is a blueprint for countries like China and Iran.

这是像中国和伊朗这类国家的蓝图

This is a blueprint how to survey your society,

这也是如何监测你的社交圈的蓝图

because you know who talks to whom,

因为你会知道谁和谁谈了话

who sends whom an email, all this is possible

谁发邮件给了谁，这些都是可以做到的

if you have access to this information.

如果你得到了这些数据信息，

And this information is stored for at least six months

而且它们可以保存至少半年的时间

in Europe, up to two years.

在欧洲，最长是两年

Like I said at the beginning,

就像我开头说的

imagine that all those people on the streets of Berlin

想象一下那些在1989年秋天

in autumn of 1989

走上柏林街头的人们

had a mobile phone in their pocket.

如果他们口袋里都有手机

And the Stasi would have known who took part at this protest,

那么Stasi就会知道谁参与了抗议活动

and if the Stasi would have known

如果Stasi提前了解到

who are the leaders behind it,

谁是活动的始作俑者，

this may never have happened.

那么抗议也就不会发生了

The fall of the Berlin Wall would maybe not [have been] there.

柏林墙也就倒不下来

And in the aftermath, also not the fall of the Iron Curtain.

之后也不会有冷战铁幕的落下

Because today, state agencies and companies

因为现在，州立机构和公司

want to store as much information as they can get about us,

都想尽可能地保留关于我们的数据资料

online and offline.

不管是网上的还是现实中的

They want to have the possibility to track our lives,

他们都不想放过一丝能追踪我们生活的机会

and they want to store them for all time.

他们也想永久地保留这些数据资料

But self-determination and living in the digital age

然而，自我做主和生活在这个数字时代

is no contradiction.

并不冲突

But you have to fight for your self-determination today.

只不过如今你得自己去争取自主权

You have to fight for it every day.

你必须每天都要去争取

So, when you go home,

所以，在你回去之后，

tell your friends

告诉你朋友，

that privacy is a value of the 21st century,

隐私在21世纪是很重要的

and it's not outdated.

它还没过时

When you go home, tell your representative

在你回去以后，告诉那些代表们

only because companies and state agencies have the possibility

虽然那些公司和州立机构

to store certain information, they don't have to do it.

可以对资料信息进行保留，但他们并非一定要这么做

And if you don't believe me,

如果你不相信我，

ask your phone company what information they store about you.

就去问问你的电讯公司他们存了你什么资料信息

So, in the future, every time you use your mobile phone,

所以在以后，每次你使用手机时，

let it be a reminder to you

让手机成为一个提醒

that you have to fight for self-determination in the digital age.

提醒你得在这个数字时代为自己争取自主权

Thank you.

谢谢

(Applause)

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