Edward Snowden’s Christmas message - Hadas Gold - POLITICO.com
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"NSA leaker Edward Snowden is offering an “alternative” Christmas Message, saying a child born today will “never know what it means to have a private moment.”
“Recently, we learned our governments working on concert have created a system of world-wide mass surveillance, watching every thing we do,” Snowden said a video for the British Channel 4.
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Snowden said “1984” author George Orwell had warned us of such surveillance.
“The types of collection in the book – microphones and video cameras, TVs that watch us - are nothing compared to what we have available today,” Snowden says on Channel 4 which has been broadcast alternative Christmas messages for many years. “We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.”
Clad in a black blazer and pink button down shirt, Snowden continued, saying that a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy.
“They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought,” Snowden said. !"
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