Digital Privacy Workshop Series
Here are the user group events, presentations, and workshops I have planned to help improve the privacy of your digital devices.
Gympie User Group
Announcement! The inaugural meetup of the Gympie Digital Privacy User Group will happen on Saturday 9th October. See the announcement here.
Introduction to Privacy with Technology
In this 20 to 30 minute presentation, I explore the ways that big tech tracks and spies on you. You will find out what measures can be taken to protect your privacy on both your mobile phone/tablet and your computer/laptop.
This presentation is available for groups wanting to learn the basics and is also used as the introductory part of the following workshop.
Digital Privacy & Your Mobile Phone
Join me for an hour workshop that will empower you and your family by improving the privacy of your digital devices.
You will come away from the workshop knowing that your current mobile device will be as private as possible. And you will have an understanding of what other things you can do to further protect your devices and on-line activities.
Privacy Friendly Apps Instead of Big Tech Spyware
Discover open source privacy friendly apps that can be used with your existing devices and replace big tech standard offerings.
Alternatives for
- email - replace gmail, outlook, and other big tech email apps with open source alternatives
- calendar - etar for Android, Thunderbird for Linux and Windows
- messengers - use SIgnal, Telegram, Element instead of facebook messenger
- browsers - replace Chrome and Edge with Brave, Firefox, Librewolf, or Mull
- office - replace MS Office with LibreOffice
- play store - use Aurora store to access google's playstore
- authenticators - replace big tech authenticator apps with Bitwarden or FreeOPT+
- and more
De-google your Android mobile phone
Bring your phone and laptop and learn how to wipe the phone and install a privacy friendly operating system.
Advanced version available for those wanting to de-google other people’s phones.
Introduction to Linux
Learn what Linux is and what it can do and how to pick a distribution to suit you. Find out how easy it is to use. And also learn what applications replace commonly used Windows apps.
Also learn what computing equipment can run Linux, how to install it, where to get additional applications, and how does it get updates and upgrades.
How to transition from Windows to Linux
This workshop will explore the various tasks and options involved in migrating from your Windows computer to the Linux distribution of your choice.
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Introducing the first in a series of workshops about digital privacy.
This workshop is an introduction to the ways big tech tracks and spies on you and what can be done to protect your privacy.
What you'll achieve
- maximum privacy settings for the device you have.
- install brave browser to restrict tracking while web surfing.
What you'll learn
- Why do we need digital privacy and what level do you need?
- What can be done to mobile devices and computers?
- How is a phone de-googled?
- How will digital privacy impact your use of digital devices?
- Settings to make Android and Apple phones as private as possible.
- Does AI impact your privacy and what can be done to limit or eliminate that threat.
- How Firewalls and VPNs can help.
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