State of The Freedoms and Rights Address

The Digital Freedoms and Rights are constantly evolving, legally, technically and socially. However they are not always improving for the benefit of the individual nor the general public. One example is the current EU Commission’s proposal on Chat Control 2.0 which would introduce a complete and total scan and mass surveillance of all EU citizen private communications - effectively the ending of end-to-end encrypted communications.
During this presentation I will share some perspectives of the current states of digital policy in relation to digital freedoms and digital rights. The case study will be Sweden as it currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. I will focus on areas of interest to citizens as well as free software and open source advocates such as GDPR, Schrems II, open data, Freedom of Information and Freedom of Speech, e-identifcation and building political opinion in these matters.

Mattias Axell is the chairperson of The Digital Freedoms and Rights Association which is a non-profit in Sweden. The association gathers members and volunteers to engage for freedom of speech, transparency and freedom of information, personal integrity and the individuals’ rights to control the use of their personal information and digital footprints. DFRI is a Swedish member of the European Digital Rights Network which gathers
Mattias works as an educator and strategic advisor at MetaSolutions which develops the Free and Open Source software suite called EntryScape. He works on a daily basis educating and advising public sector authorities on information management with metadata for open data, shared data and linked data. He also runs Handlingar.se which is an open platform for exercising the right to public information via Freedom of Information law.
Mattias holds a bachelor diploma from the Kaospilot School for Creative Leadership & Meaningful Entrepreneurship in Aarhus, Denmark.

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The conference is held on April 24 - 25 at Chalmers Conference Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, paired with the community day on April 23. The event will be run on-site, in-person, in a physical venue.

foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective. Hosted in Gothenburg between Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, with an international airport, we provide a meeting place for the Nordic foss communities and will bring together great speakers with a great audience.