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# Digital Independence Day
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## Reclaiming Our Digital Autonomy
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**Michał Czechowski**
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University Lecturer & Open Source Enthusiast
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University Lecturer & Hacktivist
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Stuttgart, Germany
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*Science in the City Festival Malta – September 17, 2025*
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# License
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This presentation is licensed under **Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)**
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• Allows others to share and adapt your work with proper attribution
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• Requires adaptations to be shared under the same license
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For the full license text, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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# About Me
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**Michał Czechowski**
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- **2014**: Oracle aquires a marketing tech start-up based in Cupertino, California, for around **$400 million**.
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- **2016**: Oracle bragged about profiling 5 billion people worldwide, creating detailed cohorts from **sensitive web browsing activity, names, home addresses, email addresses, and cross-device tracking data**
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- **$42.4 billion annual revenue** from their BlueKai data brokerage operations, selling personal profiles to advertisers and third parties without consent
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- **2024**: Oracle forced to pay $115 million settlement after class action lawsuit led by privacy researchers Michael Katz-Lacabe (USA), Jennifer Golbeck (USA), and Johnny Ryan (Ireland)
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# Real-World Digital Attacks
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# Real-World Effects
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* **Cambridge Analytica (2018)**: 87 million Facebook profiles harvested for election manipulation
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* **Meta's Teen Depression Experiments (2021)**: Deliberately harmful algorithms tested on adolescents
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* **Israel-Lebanon Pager Attack (2024)**: Consumer communication devices remotely weaponized
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* **Israel-Lebanon Pager Attack (2024)**: Consumer communication devices remotely weaponized at Hezbollah (Operation Grim Beeper)
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* **Palantir Surveillance Infrastructure**: Military-grade population monitoring sold to corporations and governments
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# Oracle's BlueKai
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* **2014**: Oracle aquires a marketing tech start-up **BlueKai** based in Cupertino, California, for around **$400 million**.
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* **2016**: Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison bragged about profiling 5 billion people worldwide, creating detailed cohorts from **sensitive web browsing activity, names, home addresses, email addresses, and cross-device tracking data**.
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* **$42.4 billion annual revenue** from their BlueKai data brokerage operations, selling personal profiles to advertisers and third parties without consent
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* **2024**: Oracle forced to pay $115 million settlement after class action lawsuit led by privacy researchers Michael Katz-Lacabe (USA), Jennifer Golbeck (USA), and Johnny Ryan (Ireland).
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| **Web Browsing** | Chrome/Chromium | Firefox | Mozilla Foundation, privacy-focused |
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| | | LibreWolf | Firefox without telemetry, hardened |
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| | | Ladybird | Complete rebuild browser from scratch (summer 2026) |
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| | Plugins | Block Origin, Privacy Badger etc. | Useful firefox/chromium extension for increased security |
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| | Plugins | uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger etc. | Useful firefox/chromium extension for increased security |
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| **Productivity** | Microsoft Office | LibreOffice | Full office suite, document compatibility |
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| | Notion | Logseq | Local-first knowledge graphs |
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| | Slack | Mattermost | Self-hosted team communication |
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# Implementation Strategy
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# Trade-offs of Using FOSS
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**Everything Comes with a Price:**
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* **Self-Responsibility**: No one to blame except yourself when things go sideways
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* **Accessibility Over Polish**: "Not so smooth" interfaces, therefore highly accessible
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* **Modular Solutions**: Rarely "All-in-One"-Solutions, mostly a potpourri of multiple solutions to meet your needs
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# Your Roadmap to (Digial) Independence
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* **1. Kyū (yellow belt 🟡):**
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Communication tools, Browser, Search, Office suite
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* **3. Kyū (green belt 🟢):**
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Cloud storage, Self-hosting, Complete sovereignty
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# Workshop Implementation Guide
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# Workshop Guide
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* **Today's Focus:**
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- Install FOSS onto your private device (PC/Smartphone)
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# Call to Action
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# Conclusions
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**Digital Independence is Democratic Necessity**
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## Digital Independence is Democratic Necessity
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In Floridi's infosphere, our digital choices are political choices.
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# Trade-offs of Using FOSS
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**Everything Comes with a Price:**
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* **Self-Responsibility**: No one to blame except yourself when things go sideways
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* **Accessibility Over Polish**: "Not so smooth" interfaces, therefore highly accessible
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* **Modular Solutions**: Rarely "All-in-One"-Solutions, mostly a potpourri of multiple solutions to meet your needs
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