"We need to move beyond the Silicon Valley model."Aral Balkanis the founder and lead designer ofInd.ie, a social enterprise creating independent alternatives toSpyware 2.0.Aral insists that we as individuals must have ownership and control of our digital selves. We are the products that companies and corporations sell to their customers. This is the business model of Silicon Valley which regulators of today don't question enough.Aral’s work protects fundamental freedoms, human rights, and democracy by creating independent consumer technologies that don’t spy on you. He is the author of theInd.ieManifesto.Aral is currently working on coding the core of theInd.ieplatform, a beautiful distributed social network called Heartbeat. In this talk he tells you all about it.