Edward Snowden: We Need to Take Back Our Privacy

Edward Snowden made a call to take back privacy with technology, supporting an anti-surveillance campaign called Reset The Net during a talk on Thursday — the anniversary of the first published NSA surveillance revelation.

Speaking via Google Hangouts from Russia, Snowden noted that trust in both the U.S. tech sector and politician institutions has eroded. But the good news, Snowden said, is that netizens don't have to rely on governments to protect their privacy rights anymore

"We're past the point where citizens are entirely dependent on governments to defend our privacy, we don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back," he said during a talk with Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder J.P. Barlow at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City. "We can do it with our technology applied in new innovative ways.” Read more...