VIDEO: Why Privacy Matters | Glenn Greenwald Speaks at TED

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Back in 2014, prize-winning journalist and constitutional/civil rights attorney (and now host of the news program System Update) Glenn Greenwald gave a 20-minute TED Talk entitled Why Privacy Matters, wherein he responded to the common question concerning governmental mass surveillance:

“If you aren’t doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about?”

In answer, he spends the first 15 minutes informing us of precisely what we need to worry about, then spends the last 5 minutes answering questions about former NSA intelligence operative and whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Worth a watch:

And: along the lines of governments using social media companies to spy on us and/or censor us, considering that fact reminded me of the following meme I created for Facebook back when Elon Musk took over Twitter:

 


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Rand Eastwood is an author & blogger, artist & craftsman, and entrepreneur currently residing in Las Vegas, NV. He describes himself as an Individualist, Consensualist, Autarchist, Sophophile, & Syncretist. Certified in both nutrition and ancestral health, he is a healthy nutrition & lifestyle advocate. Under Eastwood Innovations, LLC he owns/operates both INSIGHTS Blog and Lifeology Store. Much of his fiction—including some award-winners—is available through his Amazon author page, as well as some freebies here, under My Fiction. He currently has an extensive novel under development (working title Primeval), along with various other writing projects. To follow his work elsewhere, simply follow the links in About or under Stay Connected in the right sidebar.