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Edward Snowden has made two prominent appearances in the last two days. The first in an interview with the Washington Post in which he declared "mission accomplished," by which he means that his leaking of secret NSA documents has started a debate on the propriety of the practices he exposed.
This interpretation of events is indisputable. Whether it was any of his business to do what it took to start the debate is another matter.
But the next day, Snowden delivered a short Christmas Day message on British television, and here he got carried away, to put it kindly:
"A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves -- an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem, because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be."
Perhaps NSA capabilities remain to be disclosed which are many orders of magnitude more invasive than what we have heretofore seen, but what we know now does not justify Snowden's nutty statement here. The child he speaks of will plainly have many opportunities for privacy — in their own room talking to siblings, out in a park with friends, believe it or not, even online.
Via : ZDNet
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