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Terrifying Quotes From This Speech:
"My family has been targeted. My partner woke up in the middle of the night with men with night vision goggles watching her sleep in her own home. These kinds of things are a part of press freedom in the United States now."
"Surveillance is not an end toward totalitarianism, it is totalitarianism itself. Limited in scope for the moment, but when the Golden Dawn [party] in Greece has access to these systems, with their racist ideology, what will happen?"
"These kinds of legal instruments are terrifying, in particular because they use the language of terrorism about Wikileaks, which is nonsense. Wikileaks is not terrorism, it is effective journalism."
"How do we detect this kind of surveillance? It's easy. Do you have a phone? You have a tracking device. You make a call? It was probably intercepted."
Re-contextualizing our social interactions in the face of privatisation of data leads us into a space of social responsibility. The impact of our permissive data sharing habits and the economic models that incentivize it is not yet fully understood. How may we ensure that we're fully informed and consenting to information released or sold about us? How may try we ensure that consent is required? How can we re-contextualize and better come to a shared understanding about transitive risks posed by the surveillance state?