The document discusses the need for decentralized, free and open source alternatives to centralized cloud services controlled by a few large corporations. It argues that centralized cloud services enable mass surveillance and limit user freedom. The author advocates for rebuilding the internet in a decentralized manner through various free and open source personal cloud solutions, self-hosting, and decentralized networking projects that give users more control over their data and online experiences.

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

6. Both enable data
collection

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

17. Free software
Free society

18. If code is law…

19. …architecture
is
politics

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

30. Backup slides:
Cozy demo!

32. Welcome
screen of my
personal Cloud