How to pronounce "selfdetermination"

this may never have happened.

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

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

Because today, state agencies and companies

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

online and offline.

They want to have the possibility to track our lives,

and they want to store them for all time.

But self-determination and living in the digital age

is no contradiction.

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

You have to fight for it every day.

So, when you go home,

tell your friends

that privacy is a value of the 21st century,

and it's not outdated.

When you go home, tell your representative

only because companies and state agencies have the possibility

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

And if you don't believe me,

ask your phone company what information they store about you.