TWO YEARS AGO, former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden leaked documents revealing the full extent of communication surveillance by the US spying agency. He now lives in Russia, to avoid US charges, but has popped up at various conferences via Google Hangout, including Nesta’s Future Fest held in London in March.
This is an edited transcript of some of Snowden’s responses to questions asked at the London event. You can the watch the full interview at pcpro.link/249snowden.
Many of the things you’ve said are in some ways relatively timeless principles about the rule of law, the trade-offs of security and freedom and surveillance. But how different will these questions look in a few years’ time, with perhaps easier access to strong cryptography, with the internet of things meaning we’ll all…
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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2015