Jérémie Zimmermann (born 1978) is a French

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co-founder of the Paris-based La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online and co-founder of Hacking With Care, a "collective composed of hackers-activists, caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and affinity".

Life

He appeared with Julian Assange on Episode 8 and Episode 9 of '' The World Tomorrow'', "Cypherpunks: 1/2". He is a contributor to Julian Assange's 2012 book '' Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet'' along with

Jacob Appelbaum Jacob Appelbaum (born 1 April 1983) is an American independent journalist, computer security researcher, artist, and hacker. He studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology and was a core member of the Tor project, a free software network ...

and Andy Müller-Maguhn ( OR Books, ).

Awards

He was awarded the 2012

EFF Pioneer Award The EFF Pioneer Award is an annual prize by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for people who have made significant contributions to the empowerment of individuals in using computers. Until 1998 it was presented at a ceremony in Washington, ...

, together with other persons and groups.

References

External links

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Hacking With Care

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Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an '' eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters (called ''Erfa-Kreise'') i ...

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