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Privacy: “Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness of what you said or did has changed dramatically.” With the analog surveillance of our parents, everything was caught in the context of its time. The digital surveillance of our children saves everything for later use against them.

It’s a reality for our digital children so horrible, that not even Nineteen Eighty-Four managed to think of it. In the analog surveillance world, where people are put under surveillance only after they’ve been identified as suspects of a crime, everything we said and did was transient. If Winston’s telescreen missed him doing something bad, then it had missed the moment and Winston was safe.

The analog surveillance was transient for two reasons: one, it was assumed that all surveillance was people watching other people, and two, that nobody would have the capacity of instantly finding keywords in the past twenty years of somebody’s conversations. In the analog world of our parents, that would mean somebody would need to actually listen to twenty years’ worth of tape recordings, which would in turn take sixty years (as we only work 8 out of 24 hours). In the digital world of our children, surveillance agencies type a few words to get automatic transcripts of the saved-forever surveillance-of-everybody up on screen in realtime as they type the keywords – not just from one person’s conversation, but from everybody’s. (This isn’t even exaggerating; this was reality in or about 2010 with the GCHQ-NSA XKEYSCORE program.)

In the world of our analog parents, surveillance was only a thing at the specific time it was active, which was when you were under individual and concrete suspicion of a specific, already-committed, and serious crime.

In the world of our digital children, surveillance can be retroactively activated for any reason or no reason, with the net effect that everybody is under surveillance for everything they have ever done or said.

We should tell people as it has become instead; “anything you say or do can be used against you, for any reason or no reason, at any point in the future”.

The current generation has utterly failed to preserve the presumption of innocence, as it applies to surveillance, in the shift from our analog parents to our digital children.

This subtle addition – that everything is recorded for later use against you – amplifies the horrors of the previous aspects of surveillance by orders of magnitude.

Consider somebody asking you where you were on the evening of March 13, 1992. You would, at best, have a vague idea of what you did that year. (“Let’s see… I remember my military service started on March 3 of that year… and the first week was a tough boot camp in freezing winter forest… so I was probably… back at barracks after the first week, having the first military theory class of something? Or maybe that date was a Saturday or Sunday, in which case I’d be on weekend leave?” That’s about the maximum precision your memory can produce for twenty-five years past.)

However, when confronted with hard data on what you did, the people confronting you will have an utter and complete upper hand, because you simply can’t refute it. “You were in this room and said these words, according to our data transcript. These other people were also in the same room. We have to assume what you said was communicated with the intention for them to hear. What do you have to say for yourself?”

It doesn’t have to be 25 years ago. A few months back would be sufficient for most memories to be not very detailed anymore.

To illustrate further: consider that the NSA is known to store copies even of all encrypted correspondence today, on the assumption that even if it’s not breakable today, it will probably be so in the future. Consider what you’re communicating encrypted today — in text, voice, or video — can be used against you in twenty years. You probably don’t even know half of it, because the window of acceptable behavior will have shifted in ways we cannot predict, as it always does. In the 1950s, it was completely socially acceptable to drop disparaging remarks about some minorities in society, which would socially ostracize you today. Other minorities are still okay to disparage, but might not be in the future.

When you’re listening to somebody talking from fifty years ago, they were talking in the context of their time, maybe even with the best of intentions by today’s standards. Yet, we could judge them harshly for their words interpreted by today’s context — today’s completely different context.

Our digital children will face exactly this scenario, because everything they do and say can and will be used against them, at any point in the future. It should not be this way. They should have every right to enjoy Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.

Privacy: We’ve seen how our digital children’s privacy is violated in everything they buy with cash or credit, in a way our analog parents would have balked at. But even worse: our digital children’s privacy is also violated by tracking what they don’t buy — either actively decline or just plain walk away from.

Amazon just opened its first “Amazon Go” store, where you just pick things into a bag and leave, without ever going through a checkout process. As part of the introduction of this concept, Amazon points out that you can pick something off the shelves, at which point it’ll register in your purchase — and change your mind and put it back, at which point you’ll be registered and logged as having not purchased the item.

Sure, you’re not paying for something you changed your mind about, which is the point of the video presentation. But it’s not just about the deduction from your total amount to pay: Amazon also knows you considered buying it and eventually didn’t, and will be using that data.

Our digital children are tracked this way on a daily basis, if not an hourly basis. Our analog parents never were.

When we’re shopping for anything online, there are even simple plugins for the most common merchant solutions with the business terms “funnel analysis” — where in the so-called “purchase funnel” our digital children choose to leave the process of purchasing something — or “cart abandonment analysis”.

We can’t even simply walk away from something anymore without it being recorded, logged, and cataloged for later use against us.

But so-called “cart abandonment” is only one part of the bigger issue of tracking what we’re interested in in the age of our digital children, but didn’t buy. There is no shortage of people today who would swear they were just discussing a very specific type of product with their phone present (say, “black leather skirts”) and all of a sudden, advertising for that very specific type of product would pop up all over Facebook and/or Amazon ads. Is this really due to some company listening for keywords through the phone? Maybe, maybe not. All we know since Snowden is that if it’s technically possible to invade privacy, it is already happening.

(We have to assume here these people still need to learn how to install a simple adblocker. But still.)

At the worst ad-dense places, like (but not limited to) airports, there are eyeball trackers to find out which ads you look at. They don’t yet change to match your interests, as per Minority Report, but that’s already present on your phone and on your desktop, and so wouldn’t be foreign to see in public soon, either.

In the world of our analog parents, we weren’t registered and tracked when we bought something.

In the world of our digital children, we’re registered and tracked even when we don’t buy something.

Privacy: For our analog parents, a diary or a personal letter could rarely be touched by authorities, not even by law enforcement searching for evidence of a crime. Objects such as these had protection over and above the constitutional privacy safeguards. For our digital children, however, the equivalent diaries and letters aren’t even considered worthy of basic constitutional privacy.

In most jurisdictions, there is a constitutional right to privacy. Law enforcement in such countries can’t just walk in and read somebody’s mail, wiretap their phonecalls, or track their IP addresses. They need a prior court order to do so, which in turn is based on a concrete suspicion of a serious crime: the general case is that you have a right to privacy, and violations of this rule are the exception, not the norm.

However, there’s usually a layer of protection over and above this: even if and when law enforcement gets permission from a judge to violate somebody’s privacy in the form of a search warrant of their home, there are certain things that may not be touched unless specific and additional permissions are granted by the same type of judge. This class of items includes the most private of the personal: private letters, diaries, and so on.

Of course, this is only true in the analog world of our parents. Even though the letter of the law is the same, this protection doesn’t apply at all to the digital world of our children, to their diaries and letters.

Because the modern diary is kept on a computer. If not on a desktop computer, then certainly on a mobile handheld one — what we’d call a “phone” for historical reasons, but what’s really a handheld computer.

And a computer is a work tool in the analog world of our parents. There are loads of precedent cases that establish any form of electronic device as a work tool, dating back well into the analog world, and law enforcement is falling back on all of them with vigor, even now that our digital devices are holding our diaries, personal letters, and other items far more private than an analog diary was ever capable of.

That’s right: whereas your parents’ diaries were extremely protected under the law of the land, your children’s diaries — no less private to them, than those of your parents were to your parents — are as protected from search and seizure as an ordinary steel wrench in a random workshop.

So the question is how we got from point A to point B here? Why are the Police, who know that they can’t touch an analog diary during a house search, instantly grabbing mobile phones which serve the same purpose for our children?

“Because they can”, is the short answer. “Also because nobody put their foot down” for advanced points on the civics course. It’s because some people saw short term political points in being “tough on crime” and completely erasing hard-won rights in the process.

Encrypt everything.

Europe: Slack has updated its Terms of Service to let your manager read your private conversations in private channels. Our analog parents would have been shocked and horrified at the very idea that their bosses would open packages and read personal messages that were addressed to them. For our digital children, it’s another shrugworthy part of everyday life.

The analog plain old telephone system, sometimes abbreviated POTS, is a good template for how things should be even in the digital world. This is something that lawmakers got mostly right in the old analog world.

When somebody is on a phonecall — an old-fashioned, analog phonecall — we know that the conversation is private by default. It doesn’t matter who owns the phone. It is the person using the phone, right this very minute, that has all the rights to its communication capabilities, right this very minute.

The user has all the usage rights. The owner has no right to intercept or interfere with the communications usage, just based on the property right alone.

Put another way: just because you own a piece of communications equipment, that doesn’t give you any kind of automatic right to listen to private conversations that happen to come across this equipment.

Regrettably, this only applies to the telephone network. Moreover, only the analog part of the telephone network. If anything is even remotely digital, the owner can basically intercept anything they like, for any reason they like.

This particularly extends to the workplace. It can be argued that you have no expectation of privacy for what you do on your employer’s equipment; this is precisely forgetting that such privacy was paramount for the POTS, less than two decades ago, regardless of who owned the equipment.

Some employers even install wildcard digital certificates on their workplace computers with the specific purpose of negating any end-to-end security between the employee’s computer and the outside world, effectively performing a so-called “man-in-the-middle attack”. In a whitewashed term, this practice is called HTTPS Interception instead of “man-in-the-middle attack” when it’s performed by your employer instead of another adversary.

Since we’re looking at difference between analog and digital, and how privacy rights have vanished in the transition to digital, it’s worth looking at the code of law for the oldest of analog correspondences: the analog letter, and whether your boss could open and read it just because it was addressed to you at your workplace.

Analog law differs somewhat between different countries on this issue, but in general, even if your manager or workplace were allowed to open your mail (which is the case in the United States but not in Britain), they are typically never allowed to read it (even in the United States).

In contrast, with electronic mail, your managers don’t just read your entire e-mail, but typically has hired an entire department to read it for them. In Europe, this went as far as the European Court of Human Rights, which ruled that it’s totally fine for an employer to read the most private of correspondence, as long as the employer informs of this fact (thereby negating the default expectation of privacy).

Of course, this principle about somewhat-old-fashioned e-mail applies to any and all electronic communications now, such as Slack.

So for our digital children, the concept of “mail is private and yours, no matter if you receive it at the workplace” appears to have been irrevocably lost. This was a concept our analog parents took so for granted, they didn’t see any need to fight for it.

Today, privacy remains your own responsibility.

Kevin Nikulski Is one of the best BMX flatland riders worldwide and one of the funniest dudes you'll ever meet!

BMX Since: 2007
BMX Disziplin: BMX Flatland
Hometown: Dortmund
Residence: Berlin
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Homespots: Reichstagsgebäude
Favorite Spots: Reichstagsgebäude
Favorite thing beside BMX: Party
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Kevin Nikulski - 2nd Pro Class - 100PSI BMX Flatland Contest 2017

Kevin Nikulski was back at the 100PSI BMX Flatland Contest in Dresden this year and came home with second place, congrats Kevin! Have fun with the video, Your kunstform BMX Shop.

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Kevin Nikulski X Dustyn Alt - BMX Flatland in Berlin 2017 Video

Kevin Nikulski has filmed a new video with his homie Dustyn Alt in Berlin, GER, in which both show their flatland skills. Enjoy the Video, Your kunstform BMX Shop.

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Kevin Nikulski isn't just one of the best BMX flatland riders worldwide, he's also testing his first Autum Bikes "PIVN" signature frame at the moment, which is a good reason to check his current Whip!

Yo Kevin, where do you come from and how long have you been riding?

I come from Dortmund and I've been riding BMX for about 9 years.

What is your favorite BMX video?

„The Flat Side of Things 4“ from Matthias Dandois, Well what I should say ... outta space!

What bike setup do you have and what can you tell about it?

I'm riding my signature Autum Bikes "PIVN" frame for one year now and I just got my second sample of it and well... it's just perfect! It has a shorter chainstay, because I'm not the tallest. My setup isn't the usual „Flatland“ setup, it's actually more „Flat Street Whatever“.

Frame: Prototype vom Autum PIVN Frame
Fork: Autum Bent Fork (15mm offset)
Bars: Autum Berlin Bar (8.7)
Stem: Odyssey Raft Toploader
Headset: Eclat Cargo
Grips: -
Barends: -
Tires: Tom Dugan 2.3
Rims: GSport Rollcage Rims
FW Hub: Ecat Cortex Hub
BW Hub: BSD Westcoaster
Spokes: no name
Hubguards: Cortex Hubguards + BSD Hubguards
Pegs: plastic
Seatpost: Autum Pivotal
Seat: Autum Camo Seat
Crank: Animal Akimbo Crank 165mm
Bearings: no name
Pedals: Odyssey Twisted
Sprocket: Animal M5
Chain: Shadow Interlock
Brake: -

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Kevin Nikulski X Dustyn Alt - Double Trouble Video

Our homie Kevin Nikulski produced with Dustyn Alt a really good video, which you can check right here!

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Kevin Nikulski - Freedombmx Bikecheck 2018

Felix Prangenberg recently gave a short interview on SWR television about his BMX career. He talks about his invitation to the Olympics, the Xgames, his last injury and more.

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Our homie Kevin Nikulski ended up with the 4th place at the Fise World Cup in Edmonton, Canada, and all that with a broken finger, respect!

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We got the new Sunday Bikes 2019 BMX Bikes in stock. In the following video, our trainee Oli will show you some closer details about the new Sunday complete bikes.

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We got the new WeThePeople 2019 BMX Bikes in stock. In the following video, our trainee Oli will show you some closer details about the new WeThePeople complete bikes.

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Since 1979, Vans was among the first brands in the Skate & BMX Scene to support the BMX sport across competitions, athlete sponsorships and the release of BMX-specific footwear. 40 years later, Vans continues to promote the BMX legacy with the release of the new Old Skool Pro BMX endorsed by Vans global BMX team rider Kevin Peraza. As the only BMX-specific shoe design in market to date, Vans’ Old Skool Pro BMX introduces a unique WaffleCup BMX technology, offering today’s BMXer’s the superior support of a cupsole without sacrificing any pedal feel, and paying crucial attention to flex, grip, durability, and additional support engineered within the midsole.


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Bro Kevin Nikulski was during his California trip for an interview at TheComeUp, where he talked with Ethan Corriere and Catfish not only about their worst tattoos, they also talked about the daily life as a BMX Pro.

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At the 13th of July 2019 the famous Schanzafeschd will take place again at the Aichwaldtrails. BBQ, BMX, Beers and more BMX! Sounds good? Then come over and have a great time!


More information about the event:
Instagram: @aichwaldtrails Mail: info@aichwaldtrails.de

What:
Aichwald Schanzafeschd 2019 BMX discipline: BMX Dirt

When:
13th of July 2019

Where:
Aichwald Trails
Krummhardter Str. 70
73773 Aichwald


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From the 1st - 2nd of June 2019 the famous Highway to Hill Contest will take place again at the Mellowpark Berlin. Save the date, come over with your BMX Bike and have a good time!

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Instagram: @mellowpark_berlin

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What:
Highway to Hill 2019 BMX disciplines: BMX Park, BMX Street, BMX Flatland, BMX Mini Ramp, BMX Dirt

When:
1st - 2nd of June 2019

Where:
Mellowpark
An der Wuhlheide 250-256
12459 Berlin


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The schedule for this year's Vans BMX Pro Cup Series is now live! A stop of the BMX event next to Sydney, Mexico City, Singapore and Huntington Beach is Waiblingen, Stuttgart. Get ready for BMX legends like Larry Edgar, Dennis Enarson, Alex Hiam and many more.

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What:
Vans BMX Pro Cup Series 2019
BMX disciplines: BMX Park

When & Where:
April 5 - 6, 2019, Singapore

April 10 - 13, 2019, Sydney, Australia

June 14 - 16, 2019, Stuttgart, Germany

August 16 - 18, 2019, Mexico City, Mexico

September 13 - 15, 2019, Huntington Beach, California

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On the 28th of April, 2019, "The Cash Jam of Winterthur" will take place for the second time. This BMX event is a street jam. We will head for the best BMX spots in Winterthur. The printed "Winti Dollar bills" serve as a rating system. The rider with the most cash in the end will win the BMX event. The motto is, riders judges riders!

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What: THE CASH JAM OF WINTERTHUR

BMX disciplines: BMX Street

When: 28th of April 2019

Where:
Skatepark Winterthur-Töss Switzerland
Winterthur-Töss 8406 Auwiesenstrasse 46


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On the 20th of July 2019, the "No Mercy BMX Jam" will take place again. There will be different challenges and a contest, which is divided into different classes. A lot of prizes are waiting for you like vouchers and BMX parts. Also there's a bit cash for the pros! Last but not least, food, cool drinks and music are provided, too. Sounds good? Then come over and have a good time!

More information about the BMX event:

No Mercy Jam

What: No Mercy Jam

BMX disciplines: BMX Park, BMX Street

When: 20th of July 2019

Where:
Am Krebsgraben 8
08056 Zwickau


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