[Chapter-delegates] Sad news from Turkey and the UK - two of our colleagues have passed away in the last few days

Mon Jul 13 04:54:40 PDT 2015

Very sad news!  RIP.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> Too young... :-(
> On Jul 13, 2015 06:33, "Veni Markovski" <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>
>>  Dear colleagues,
>> Two people from the Internet community left us in the last couple of days
>> - Özgür Uçkan (54) and Casper Bowden (53). Some of you might have worked
>> with one or the other.
>> It is a very sad moment for the European Internet community, and for
>> those of us, who knew them.
>> RIP.
>>
>>
>> Global Voices write
>> <http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/07/12/r-i-p-ozgur-uckan-netizens-of-turkey-lose-one-of-their-best/>
>> about Ozgur:
>>  R.I.P. Özgür Uçkan: Netizens of Turkey Lose One of Their Best
>> <http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/07/12/r-i-p-ozgur-uckan-netizens-of-turkey-lose-one-of-their-best/>
>>  Posted 12 July 2015 <http://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/07/12/>
>> 11:47 GMT
>>
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>>
>> [image: 500]
>>
>> Dr. Özgür Uçkan, one of Turkey's few leading digital activists and a
>> co-founder of Alternatif Bilisim, an association working on digital rights
>> and freedoms in the country, died on July 10, 2015. He was just
>> 54-years-old and had been seriously ill for some time.
>>
>> A writer, teacher and advisor, Uçkan dedicated his working life to
>> discussions of the knowledge economy, creative industries, information
>> design and management, communication design, art and culture,
>> while spending much of his time on digital freedom issues.
>>
>> Uçkan's website <http://www.ozguruckan.com/> is mostly in Turkish but
>> there is also some English language content and his name regularly appears
>> in web searches as an expert on the state of Internet freedom in Turkey.
>>
>> An obituary and more photos of Uçkan can be found here
>> <http://www.ozguruckan.com/kategori/kategorilenmemis/63029/dr.-ozgur-uckan-i-kaybettik...>,
>> while many Turkish netizens linked to other online tributes:
>>
>> [image: FireShot Capture - Ozgur Uckan (@ozuckan) I Twitter -
>> https___twitter.com_ozuckan]
>> This screen capture from his Twitter profile sums up his twin interests
>> in theory and the practicalities of online freedom advocacy.
>>
>> The cover photo is from the now legendary Internet Freedom March in
>> Taksim, Istanbul on May 15, 2011.
>>
>> Dr. Uçkan is one of those seen here holding a banner reading “Internet
>> without Censorship” in Turkish.
>>
>> His pinned tweet is a quote from Deleuze and Guattari's
>> Anti-Oedipus. Prior to the quote he writes “This sums up my feelings”,
>> while the quote itself reads “The masses were not deceived, at a particular
>> historical moment they desired fascism.”
>>
>> Uçkan was well versed in Deleuzian art theory, which he combined with his
>> later growing interest in cybercultural issues.
>>
>> He will be truly missed.
>>
>> ****
>>
>> The obituary for Casper was published in the Wall Street Journal
>> <http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/10/caspar-bowden-european-privacy-advocate-dies-at-53/?mod=ST1>:
>>
>>
>> *Caspar Bowden, European Privacy Advocate, Dies at 53*
>> *By **Ania Nussbaum*
>>
>> Caspar Bowden, a leading British privacy advocate most well known for
>> foreshadowing the revelations made by Edward Snowden, died of a
>> fast-spreading skin cancer on Thursday in southern France, where he lived,
>> his wife Sandi announced on Twitter. He was 53.
>>
>> Bowden was an outspoken figure who worked for Microsoft
>> <http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=MSFT> and
>> advised the British government and the European Union. He was traveling the
>> world to speak about privacy at conferences.
>>
>> At a hacker festival in France in May 2013, Bowden warned that European
>> phone calls, emails and any kind of data could be watched by U.S.
>> authorities without a warrant. A few weeks later, former NSA contractor
>> Edward Snowden revealed the existence of a massive surveillance program.
>>
>> “The Snowden revelation was a moment of victory for Caspar,” his friend
>> and privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian said. “People who had thought
>> he was crazy were proved wrong.”
>>
>> As the EU European Parliament is about to review new rules to protect
>> data proposed by the EU members states, Bowden leaves an uncompleted
>> legacy: After the Snowden revelation, Bowden became an adviser to the
>> European parliament on data privacy issues. In 2013, he wrote in a report
>> for the deputies that concluded the only way for the EU to protect its
>> citizens’ privacy was to change U.S. law.
>>
>> “He was a strong supporter for an EU-wide standard for data protection,”
>> said Jan Philipp Albrecht, a member of the European parliament and its
>> rapporteur for the data protection regulation.
>>
>> Ever since his youth, Bowden had always been interested in technology. At
>> 14, he built his own 16-bit computer. In Magdalene College Cambridge,
>> Bowden studied math. After a few years of self-employment as an “inventor,”
>> he co-founded the Foundation for Information Policy Research, a British
>> think tank for Internet policy, at age of 26, his brother Simon Bowden said
>> in a phone interview. In his late twenties, he was hired by Goldman Sachs
>> as a mathematician, Simon said.
>>
>> As he was working at Goldman Sachs, Bowden became an adviser for the
>> Labour Scientist society, an organization affiliated with the Labour party.
>> He convinced the party that personal data protection was a major issue, but
>> left disappointed after it won the general elections in 1997 and became a
>> key opponent to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, a law that laid
>> out the framework for surveillance in the U.K. in 2000.
>>
>> In 2002, the activist became in charge of privacy issues at Microsoft
>> worldwide. “They hired him because they wanted to show that they were
>> concerned by privacy,” his brother Simon said.
>>
>> Caspar Bowden used to say that he joined the company as a “chief privacy
>> officer” and decided to change his role to “chief privacy adviser” so that
>> he would not be accountable for what was happening in the company,
>> according to William Heath, an entrepreneur whom Bowden inspired to become
>> a privacy activist.
>>
>> His experience at Microsoft gave him an insider view on the cooperation
>> between U.S. intelligence and U.S. large corporations that were providing
>> the public agencies access to personal data, said Jérémie Zimmermann,
>> co-founder of European digital-rights group La Quadrature du Net, who
>> visited him at the hospital.
>>
>> “[I] put my job on the line about seven times in nine years in defense of
>> European privacy when I was at Microsoft,” Bowden once wrote in an email to
>> his friend Gus Hosein, director of the U.K.-based organization Privacy
>> International. Bowden was fired from Microsoft in 2011. His brother said he
>> was asked to leave because his views diverged from Microsoft’s.
>>
>> Since then, he had struggled to make a living of his expertise by giving
>> conferences about private data protection all over the world. “My brother
>> was in great financial distress at the end of his life because he was
>> fighting for his ideas,” Simon Bowden said. Caspar Bowden was on the board
>> of Tor Project, a service that allows anyone to browse the Web anonymously.
>>
>> “We have lost one of our key anchors: He would identify the conspiracy,
>> guess the game, and hold what was first seen as uncompromising positions
>> until we realized why,” said Gus Hosein.
>>
>> Diagnosed with melanoma a few months ago, Bowden was still meeting with
>> data protection activists on his death bed.
>>
>> “He was passionate — the kind of passion where you don’t care about
>> yourself,” said Marc Bruyère, one of Bowden’s friends and the organizer of
>> the hacker festival in the south of France, an hour away by car from the
>> former mill he used to live in. “You only care about saving the world.”
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best,
>> Veni Markovski
>> Internet Society - Bulgariawww.isoc.bg
>>
>>
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