Michael Ballweg was a guest at the 20th AZK in conversation with IT expert Elias Sasek on the topic of
digital freedom in times of ubiquitous AI surveillance.
The explosive conversation with practical solutions will be online soon.
You can take action now.
AZK teams are offering free computer workshops in your area on Saturday, August 10, 2024, to help you
effectively protect your computers from AI surveillance.
Interested?
Then get in touch today at www.anti-zensur.info/workshop.
We will put you in touch with the nearest AZK group.
Saturday, August 10, we will address this topic in your region.
You can come, you can come with your computers, with your laptops.
And we offer the opportunity to go through these settings with you and answer questions.
I am quite sure that each and every one of us has things from this great work that we have done here that we
can change, where we can tackle these issues together.
Yes, we have a historic day, which may also bring with it an anniversary gift.
And this anniversary gift should actually answer the question a little,
What can each individual do right now? What can each individual do right now?
Michael and I were just talking about these long-term goals earlier. That also takes time.
But what can each individual do when they leave this conference?
That is the big question that keeps us busy.
You can talk a lot, but where is the next step?
Where is it necessary?
Where can each individual really take action and escape this AI octopus?
And I would like to repeat very briefly: The AI octopus is spreading everywhere.
She wants to access our data.
I'll just briefly mention three facts that underline how far this has already progressed.
Microsoft revised its service contract at the end of 2023 and now grants itself full rights to your data.
I can't go into too much detail here, even lawyers and so on, they study the texts. How far does it go, how far doesn't it go?
I'm not going to go into it now, but Microsoft has the rights to your data, everyone
who has a Windows operating system takes them.
Whistleblower Edward Snowden writes about Apple's latest surveillance tools:
Apple has just declared war on their privacy.
Michael explained: cell phones, the pictures suddenly blacked out.
Meta, Facebook, WhatsApp, they all want to use the data for AI training, everywhere.
Trend, AI training, taking data and now the question is, what can everyone do directly to minimize their surveillance risk?
I ask myself this question and I have come to the right place. It's like a principle in life that
we often learned from our father from an early age.
He has always taught us that the big stones have to be carried away first. And then the next steps will follow.
And I asked myself here, what is the big stone in the bowl, where we are all really affected and can say, this step can be taken
to counteract the whole madness, the whole AI training madness.
And I would say that this big stone is very clear to me. We need to get out of the clouds of Microsoft, Apple and the big players
- we need to cut our operating systems off from this cloud.
That is the first step that I can clearly see.
We are all striving to switch to Linux and so on. This is a process that we are continuing. But this is the first step.
And this step, I say - there's more to it than that - but this step is what our anniversary gift is all about.
Let me briefly explain the consequences of connecting your computer to the cloud today. The
extent to which this is already happening today.
It's like the omniscience of AI can decide, you wrote a document about hate speech, so you can't log into your computer anymore.
This is not a future scenario. It's already the case now that if we are connected to the computer, to the
cloud in this way, then people can no longer log in.
You'll just get the message, you know all those little snout faces on YouTube: No longer available. Something like that.
And then you're standing in front of your computer, you have no more data, you have nothing, you're switched off.
And the new AZK campaign that we would now like to present to you addresses precisely this point.
We want to get the big stones out of the way, provide guidance on how to sever the big stones, this AI connection, even if
a switch to new systems is not yet possible in the short term.
This action is called Anti-Control, www.anticontrol.info.
It is based on the website anti-zensur.info.
We have taken the time in this project to work out really simple, understandable instructions for all of you out there.
And they are accessible with instructions on how you can set up your computers so that the
major obstacles are, as I said, out of the way.
Let's take a quick look at this website.
How do I get to this website?
This is possible via the official website. There's a new button at the top here called anti-control-info. You can click on it.
Or of course via the direct link: www.anti-control.info.
Exactly. The website is structured in such a way that you can click on various products, there really is a lot
covered, for example Microsoft Office, Apple, Microsoft Windows. And there are simple instructions,
what you can now do directly on your computer to disconnect from the cloud, for example, to
make settings so that less data is transmitted.
Software is recommended that slows down transmissions and so on.
There is a video linked here, a video format, for those who want to check it out, but also in text form, so
that the big obstacles can be removed from all products.
Anyone can start.
That is the aim of anti-control-info.
We are concentrating here on computer technology, Windows, Apple, Linux, on these operating systems.
Working through such instructions alone is boring, not everyone's cup of tea, there are still questions and so on.
That's why we're using the same concept as Michael Ballweg with the Freiheitshandy and his campaigns.
We offer computer security workshops.
You can just take the piece of paper to the front and make a note of the next appointment.
Two weeks from today, Saturday, August 10, in your region, we will be addressing this topic.
You can come, you can come with your computers, with your laptops.
And we offer the opportunity to go through these settings with you and answer questions.
I am quite sure that each and every one of us has things from this great work that we have done here that we
can change, where we can tackle these issues together.
Make sure you get in touch with your AZK contact person and ask them where this is taking place.
In the Berlin area it is already clear that it will be on August 24, two weeks later.
We want to give you this, we want to offer it.
And just like everything else we do, this course is completely free of charge for you, costs nothing, is a labor
of love from us and make sure you take advantage of it.
The workshop is like, yeah, if you do this work anywhere else in a workshop, you're quickly out hundreds of euros.
But here we want to take you by the hand as a labor of love and continue to work on networking.
We look forward to seeing you!