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Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who revealed details of electronic surveillance by American and British spy services, warned of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a message broadcast to Britain on X-mas Day.
In a two-minute video recorded in Moscow, where Snowden has been granted temporary asylum, he spoke of concerns over surveillance in an age of huge technological advancement.
“We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.”
“A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all,” said Snowden. “They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.”
(Reuters)
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You have no more expectation of privacy when you go online (and the telephone system is no more than an online system, even if the internet was originally a non-vocie system used telephone lines) than you do if you stand at the corner of 13th Avenue and 48th Street discussing your affairs in a loud voice. If you don’t use the internet, yoru privacy is unaffected.