Frank Rieger
Hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author
Frank Rieger, is an hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author. Professionally he has co-founded successful startups in the fields of of mobile navigation, maps, information security and practical cryptography. He works as CTO of a leading supplier of encrypted communication devices and mobile network security systems. He serves as a spokesperson for the german Chaos Computer Club. His texts on the impact of technology on the society, digital freedom rights and privacy as well as the future of work and cyberwar are regularly published in german and international media. Together with Constanze Kurz he has published three german bestseller books on the future of privacy ("Die Datenfresser", S. Fischer 2011), the future of work in a world of machines and artificial intelligence ("Arbeitsfrei", Random House 2013) and "Cyberwar" (C. Bertelsmann, 2018).