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

# Overview

  * State of the net
  * State of EP information handling
  * State of FreedomBox
  * Where and how to go from here

# State of the net

![](spiderweb2.jpg)

# Once was free flowing communication

![](water-56735.jpg)

# More efficient structures emerge

![](canal.jpg)

# Multinational companies centralize data flow

skema: points and synapses → blue multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-point → red point-to-point

(dots are logos)

# Or...: We asked for it (supply and demand)

skema: points and synapses → blue multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-point → red point-to-point

(dots are dots)

# FreedomBox can change the game

![](morning.jpg)

# blabla how it can change the game

skema: red point-to-point → blue (red at end) multipoint-to-dotted-line-to-to-freedombox-to-point

# Communication in the EP

![](flag.jpg)

# State of EP information handling

![](waterbottles-19659_640.jpg)

# Hedgehog can change the game

![](glassbottle.jpg)

# State of FreedomBox

![](naut-chest.jpg)

# Made by geeks...

![](chest.jpg)

# Made for non-geek users

![](umuligbox.jpg)

# Made for *serious* non-geek users

![](present.jpg)

# A cheap, ugly, eco-friendly box

![Photo: [Martin Michlmayr](http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/index.html)](sheevaplug.jpg)

# Possibly less ugly at the end

![Photo: [Radek Polak](http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-October/000586.html)](gta04-wood.jpg)

# Hedgehog and FreedomBox

Skema: using Linux in the EP, directly and via proxy

# Hedgehog needs FreedomBox

![](hedgehog.jpg)

# Hedgehog and FreedomBox needs us

![](freebeer.jpg)

# We need hackers

![Photo: Biella Coleman](jonas_pyrate.jpg)

# We need early adopters

![](rowing.jpg)

# We need promotors

![](lighthouse.jpg)

# Let's try coordinate our efforts

![](shoal.jpg)

# Where to best do which types of hacking

![](developmentstream.jpg)

# Same vision, but maybe multiple goals

![](delta.jpg)

# Even if project fails, efforts live on

![](ripple-20044.jpg)

# Milestone: workshop summer 2013

![](wave-3688.jpg)

# Use the source, Luke

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