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:
• This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/fb/talk/epfsug2