Civil society needs Free Software hackers 1 February 2020 FOSDEM, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Matthias Kirschner · President · fsfe.org/about/kirschner · @kirschner 1 February 2020 · FOSDEM, Brussles, Belgium

Civil society needs Free Software hackers

CC-By 3.0 Steven Fruitsmaak

Many many more will be affected

[The software] been used in hundres of cases in the US […] experts have argued that neither they, nor the defendants, have been allowed access to the system's source code – meaning, among other things, that it is diffjcult to know what assumptions are built into the technology. "There is a lot of concern," says [Ruth] Morgan. "People aren’t happy that it is essentially a black box."

[The Guardian, 2 October 2017, DNA in the dock, how fmawed techniques send innocent people to prison]

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Many small people, in many small places, do many small things that can alter the face of the world.

→ FSFE booth, K level 2, group E My talk “The core values of software freedom”, → Sunday 11:00, Janson

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