% FreedomBox and Edge - Privacy in the European Parliament
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Brussels, Belgium, November 7th, 2012

# Overview

  * State of the net
  * FreedomBox can change the game
  * Edge-in-a-box is FreedomBox?
  * Where to go from here - and how...

# Background: Big business stole our birth right

  * Internet was designed for equal peers
  * Microsoft applied client-server logic on top
  * Big corporates now control your data

# Background alternate: Privacy getting out of fashion

  * Equality → society makes "privacy" as human right
  * Individuality at least cost → mass customization

# Problem: selling your sole and being a snitch

There is no such thing as a free lunch: **You** are the product!

  * Phone calls, friendships, photos
  * Opinions, interests, activities

# Bigger problem: data mining becomes minefields

  * big data → knowledge → power
  * Power corrupts!

# Solution: FreedomBox - your personal agent

  * spies on yourself (to improve user experience)
  * masquerades as you towards central services (to limit exposure)
  * obeys only you (or else simply unplug and reset)

# FreedomBox developers: hackers in different fields

# FreedomBox concept: a small cheap simple-to-use box

# FreedomBox use: a boring server

  * machine operated by other machines

# Edge in the European Parliament

  * machine operated by its human owner (and other machines)

# FreedomBox in the European Parliament

  * safety box for backups and exchange of private data
  * translator for odd data resources (e.g. email and calendaring)
  * host for publishing own data
  * --escape route for censored chinese and syrians--

# European Parliament: FreedomBox meets Edge

# Use the source, Luke

 * Me: <dr@jones.dk>
 * This talk: <http://dr.jones.dk/fb/talk/epfsug2>