FOSSMeet 2018

India is a country that considers privacy as a fundamental right, but is it protected in the digital world? While it being a close to impossible task to make a policy on Privacy on digital world, how can we make sure our rights are not being tampered? Why a software should be free (as in freedom) should be the minimum condition for being a secure choice? This talk will briefly go through the threats and what are the Free Software solutions that respects your privacy and maintains Digital Democracy.

Outline

• Current state of Privacy.
• Why Privacy should be the debate of the century.
• How to defend your digital freedom.
• Free software alternatives in social media.
• Brief introdction about Ring, Riot, Jitsi, Diaspora, Signal and Mastodon
• Companies with a freesoftware policy.
• Net neutrality and digital freedom.

Requirements

No requirements. But if you bring a Mobile or Laptop, its possible to install your desired software and we can make a fossmeet chat group in riot.

Speaker bio

Kannan V M, Freelance web developer, Freesoftware contributor and promoter, Political Activist, Wikipedia/media contributor.. etc. etc.

Links

• https://ring.cx/
• https://jitsi.org/
• https://matrix.org/