Edward S**wden: We Need to Take Back Our Privacy
 

Edward S**wden: We Need to Take Back Our Privacy
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Edward S**wden made a call to take back privacy with tech**logy, 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, S**wden **ted that trust in both the U.S. tech sector and politician institutions has eroded. But the good news, S**wden said, is that netizens don't have to rely on governments to protect their privacy rights anymore

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"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 tech**logy applied in new in**vative ways.” Read more...

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