CyberSwaraj: Digital Privacy for Beginners
Sun, 15 Nov 2026, 12:00
Bengaluru, India
Registration on luma.com
Originally organized by Bitshala Bitspace Events and Meetups. Forty years later, the feeling he was describing is just daily life. Your phone knows where you slept last night. Your browser knows what you almost bought and changed your mind about. Your keyboard knows what you typed and then deleted. None of this is a secret anymore, it's just something most of us have stopped noticing. If you've ever had a faint sense that something about the internet doesn't feel right anymore, this session is for you. Privacy is not about hiding. Most conversations about privacy start by making you feel paranoid. This one won't. Privacy is something ordinary and human. It's the ability to decide what parts of your life get shared, when they get shared, and with whom. In the physical world this feels obvious. You close the door when you change clothes. You lower your voice in a crowded room. You don't hand your diary to a stranger. Online, we've slowly given up all of that, usually without realising we were giving anything up. Each app asks for a small permission. Each service collects a small piece of information. Individually, none of it feels like much. Put together, it forms a surprisingly complete picture of how you live, think, move, and talk to people you love. This session is a starting point for anyone who has never thought seriously about this before. No cybersecurity jargon. No lectures. Just a clear walkthrough of what's happening, why it matters, and what you can do about it this afternoon. What we'll cover Part 1: Where privacy actually leaks Why "I have nothing to hide" misses the point The difference between privacy, secrecy, and safety How ordinary apps and devices observe and track far more than you think What changes, slowly and invisibly, when people lose their private space Part 2: What you can actually do about it One of our speakers runs an almost entirely open-source setup on his phone. No Google Play Store, no surveillance-heavy apps, just tools built by people who believe your data belongs to you. He'll walk you through what his setup looks like, how he made the choices he made, and the small realistic changes anyone in the room can make on their own phone before they leave. … Venue: Bengaluru, India, Bengaluru, Karnataka, IN. Registration is handled by the original organizer. Original event and organizer: https://luma.com/guz9u3ic