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% 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
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