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VIDEO: Edward Snowden and ACLU Panel Speak on Surveillance at SXSW Tech Conference in Texas (3/10)
SNOWDEN GIVES CALL TO ARMS TO TECH WORLD!
He spoke through 7 Secure Proxies so it may be a little choppy in places.. What I heard was Good.
With a live stream provided by the Texas Tribune, the world will be able to witness the conversation between Snowden and Christopher Soghoian, the American Civil Liberties Union’s principal technologist. The talk, held at 11 AM CT, will focus specifically on the impact of the NSA's vast dragnet operations on the technology community and ways in which users can protect themselves from mass surveillance.
Edward Snowden. (Photo: Laura Poitras/ ACLU)According to the event program, the whistleblower will use this platform to "urge the entrepreneurs, innovators, makers, hackers, geeks, founders, investors and leading-edge thinkers who attend SXSW Interactive to build better systems that better protect user privacy."
The conversation will be moderated by Ben Wizner, Snowden's legal advisor and director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project.
Common Dreams/ACLU