{"id":23286,"date":"2013-12-11T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23286"},"modified":"2013-12-11T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:53:02","slug":"edward-snowden-interviewed-by-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/11\/edward-snowden-interviewed-by-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden interviewed by Time<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may not have made the cover as “person of the year”, but he’s still very newsworthy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For Snowden, those impacts are but a means to a different end. He didn\u2019t give up his freedom to tip off German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the American snoops on her cell phone or to detail the ways the NSA electronically records jihadi porn-watching habits. He wanted to issue a warning to the world, and he believed that revealing the classified information at his fingertips was the way to do it. His gambit has so far proved more successful than he reasonably could have hoped \u2014 he is alive, not in prison, and six months on, his documents still make headlines daily \u2014 but his work is not done, and his fate is far from certain. So in early October, he invited to Moscow some supporters who wanted to give him an award.<\/p>\n

After the toasts, some photographs and a brief ceremony, Snowden sat back down at the table, spread with a Russian buffet, to describe once again the dystopian landscape he believes is unfolding inside the classified computer networks on which he worked as a contractor. Here was a place that collected enormous amounts of information on regular citizens as a precaution, a place where U.S. law and policy did not recognize the right to privacy of foreigners operating outside the country, a place where he believed the basic freedoms of modern democratic states \u2014 \u201cto speak and to think and to live and be creative, to have relationships and to associate freely\u201d \u2014 were under threat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a far cry between legal programs, legitimate spying, legitimate law enforcement \u2014 where it is targeted, it\u2019s based on reasonable suspicion, individualized suspicion and warranted action \u2014 and the sort of dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under a sort of an eye and sees everything, even when it is not needed,\u201d Snowden told his colleagues. \u201cThis is about a trend in the relationship between the governing and governed in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is the thing that led him to break the law, the notion that mass surveillance undermines the foundations of private citizenship. In a way, it is the defining critique of the information age, in which data is increasingly the currency of power. The idea did not originate with Snowden, but no one has done more to advance it. \u201cThe effect has been transformative,\u201d argues Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks<\/em>, who has been helping Snowden from the confines of the Ecuadorean embassy in London. \u201cWe have shifted from a small group of experts understanding what was going on to broad public awareness of the reality of NSA mass surveillance.\u201d If Facebook<\/em>\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg is the sunny pied piper of the new sharing economy, Snowden has become its doomsayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He may not have made the cover as “person of the year”, but he’s still very newsworthy: For Snowden, those impacts are but a means to a different end. He didn\u2019t give up his freedom to tip off German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the American snoops on her cell phone or to detail the ways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,13],"tags":[925,476,913,911,644],"class_list":["post-23286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-technology","category-usa","tag-edwardsnowden","tag-espionage","tag-nsa","tag-surveillance","tag-wikileaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-63A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23288,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23286\/revisions\/23288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}