Making GAFAs obsolete
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The document discusses the obsolescence of traditional data storage solutions in favor of decentralized personal cloud systems, highlighting concerns over data centralization and surveillance. It emphasizes the importance of free software and user autonomy in building a new internet that empowers individuals rather than corporations. The author advocates for collaboration in creating decentralized cloud solutions to ensure user control over their data.
Making GAFAs obsolete
- 1. Making the GAFAs obsolete Tristan Nitot - @nitot - tristan@cozycloud.cc FOSDEM 2017
- 4. Free / Open Source personal Cloud solution
- 5. Trends in Digital: smartphones and SaaS
- 7. Mobile: for backup (into « the Cloud ») and sync (through « the Cloud ») with other devices
- 8. SaaS: as processing is server-side (in « the Cloud ») and to monetize personal data (with targeted ads)
- 9. There is no cloud. Just someone else’s computer
- 10. In « the Cloud »: 1 - data is centralized 2 - no freedom for users 3 - no room for free software FG A A
- 11. Snowden’s revealed that data centralization makes mass surveillance economically possible
- 12. « mass surveillance creates a prison in the mind that is a much more subtle though much more effective means of fostering compliance with social norms or with social orthodoxy, much more effective than brute force could ever be » Glenn Greenwald « Why privacy matters » TED Talk, Oct. 2014
- 13. When under surveillance, people tend to self-censor
- 16. Code is law: In the digital age, the one writing the code decides what users can do
- 18. If code is law…
- 20. It’s up to us, hackers, to build the Internet we want, not the one which is handed down to us
- 22. Rebuilding a {new|Gnu} decentralized Internet
- 23. …instead of a centralized Internet owned by a handfull of corporations
- 24. We need all kinds of free & open source decentralized efforts
- 25. • OwnCloud / NextCloud • Sandstorm • Yunohost • cozy.io Personal Cloud solutions
- 26. All kinds of projects here today! • Self-hosting solution • Non-profit ethical service hosting • Software • DYI ISPs • Decentralized user-controlled network hardware • … and many more!
- 27. Let’s build a decentralized Internet movement together!
- 28. Thank you! Tristan Nitot - @nitot - nitot @ cozycloud.cc
- 29. Cozy connects your data
- 32. Welcome screen of my personal Cloud