I don’t think that a world where most of the personal data of the world is stored on servers of a hand full companies is a good one. ownCloud is a free software project that offers a decentralized alternative to proprietary cloud services where everybody can run an own cloud service comparable with Dropbox but on own hardware and with full control.
More at re:publica 2013 and also check the Userdata Manifesto!
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Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany.
Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy." He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age."
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