Snowden speaks out about the lack of privacy for the next generation
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 12/30/2013 05:16 PM
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Edward Snowden gave this years Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message in the UK. The message lampoons the Queen's annual speech to the nation and Commonwealth.
Snowden warns families: "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all."
"Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us – are nothing compared to what we have available today. 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. 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."
Snowden made another appeal to Brazil for asylum saying that he could uncover the NSA surveillance of South America. He again repeated his basic plea: "All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don’t realize it."
Snowden warns families: "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all."
"Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us – are nothing compared to what we have available today. 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. 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."
Snowden made another appeal to Brazil for asylum saying that he could uncover the NSA surveillance of South America. He again repeated his basic plea: "All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. I am still working for the NSA right now. They are the only ones who don’t realize it."
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