Whistleblowers and Privacy Vital in Age of 'Inverted' Power, Says Snowden
'Rather than those who represent us in our government being accountable to us, we are now accountable to them.'
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Note to readers: Due to an editor's mix-up, we accidentally posted the wrong webcast of the April 5 Snowden event. Our apologies. We will post the correct video here if and when it becomes available.
More than 2,700 people attended a sold-out Simon Fraser University event on April 5 to join Edward Snowden in conversation on big data, security, and human rights. Snowden appeared on the screen via a live web-link, still living in an undisclosed location in Russia having received temporary asylum. Panelists guided the discussion and welcomed questions from the audience.
It was a timely occasion for the Snowden event. Two days prior the so-called Panama Papers were leaked, reportedly containing information on the offshore dealings of more than 100 politicians and public figures from multiple countries. Snowden was asked whether he had been contacted by the whistleblower. He shared that he hadn't, but praised the "vital" role of whistleblowers in a free society.
Snowden shared why he decided to proceed with his groundbreaking leak of National Security Agency files ("if we don't have privacy, we don't have sanctity"), criticized targeted ads based on metadata ("a perfect record of a private life"), and touched on the problems of mass surveillance ("we, the private citizens, are increasingly transparent to government").
"The relationship between the governing and the governed has become inverted," Snowden said. "And rather than those who represent us in our government being accountable to us, we are now accountable to them."