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04/06/2015

Makten i det informerte publikum (The power of the informed people) - Snowdon


Kronikk av Edward Snowden: Makten i det informerte publikum


Vi er kommet langt, både teknisk og juridisk, men fremdeles er vårt privatliv truet - både av invaderende teknologi og politiske programmer.





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Chronicle of Edward Snowden: Power in the informed audience


We have come a long way, both technically and legally, but still our privacy threatened - both of invasive technology and political programs.

Aftenposten - Chronicle Edward Snowden alerts
Updated: 05.jun


Today it is two years since I, quite nervous, put together with three journalists at a hotel in Hong Kong waiting for how the world would receive revelations that the US monitoring organization NSA had made recordings of virtually any telephone conversation in the United States.


In the days that followed published these three, and a number of other journalists documents showing that the democratic government has overseen the private activities of totally ordinary citizens who have done nothing wrong. Our work was denounced as anti-American and traitorous


After a few days the US government reacted with the prosecution me for espionage laws WWI.


The journalists heard from their lawyers that they risked being arrested or sued if they returned to the United States. Politicians Kapten to denounce our work as anti-American, yes, even betrayal.



Personally, I had moments where I worried me that we had set a privileged life in vain - that the public would only react with a shrug or habitual cynicism of revelations. Never before have I been so grateful to have been wrong - completely wrong.


Power in an informed audience

Two years later, the difference noticeable.

In just one month, NSA invading program for recording conversations declared illegal by the judicial authorities and rejected by Congress. After the White House did a survey that showed that the program has never prevented a single terrorist attack, even the president, who once defended it as justified and criticized the publication, ordered that the program be terminated.

So much power has an informed audience.

It is a historic victory for the rights of all citizens that mass surveillance of private telephone calls stopped after the introduction of the US Patriot Act, which was adopted as a result of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.

UN: Mass surveillance is an unequivocal human rights violations

But the changing global awareness has given many more results:
Beginning in 2013 a number of institutions across Europe reasoned that similar laws and measures are illegal and have introduced new restrictions on future activities. The Council of Europe has also realized how important it is that an informed public can correct government when they go too far, and are now demanding new legislation that prevents prosecution of whistleblowers.


In Latin America have pressure from residents in Brazil led to Marco Civil, the world's first net-rights law. Online Safety has gone from needless to standard

Outside legal limits development has gone even faster. Technology experts have worked tirelessly to restructure the security of the equipment that surrounds us, and the Internet language. Secret gaps in critical infrastructure, which has been exploited by the authorities to the mass surveillance, is detected and corrected.


Important technical protection, such as encryption - which were once considered esoteric and unnecessary - are now embedded by default in the products of pioneer firms such as Apple, so that your privacy remains remains private even if your phone is stolen.


Such technological structural changes can make a basic policy also beyond its borders, and protect ordinary citizens against arbitrary implemented anti-privacy laws, so the population of Russia is now being exposed.
Reading this on-line? It is registered


Although we have come a long way, is still the right to privacy - the foundation of the freedoms that are enshrined in the American constitutional amendment Bill of Rights - threatened by other programs and other authorities:

Some of the most popular online services are as partners in the NSA programs for mass surveillance and technological enterprises forced by governments around the world to work towards their customers instead of them.


Billions of mobile phone positions and communications are still registered without regard to those affected guilt or innocence. We have proven that our government deliberately weakens the Internet's basic security with "backdoors" that exposes people's privacy.


Metadata showing personal connections and interests of ordinary Internet users are still captured and monitored on a scale that is unprecedented in our history.


If you are reading this online, so it will be recorded by the US authorities.
States exploit tragedies to secure power to monitor


Outside the United States are "spy master" in Australia, Canada and France who have utilized recent tragedies to secure new power to penetrate into people's privacy. And despite the well-documented evidence the authorities have not prevented such attacks.


British Prime Minister David Cameron came recently with the following reasoning: "Do we really allow people a communication means that we can not read?"


He soon came up with a response and announced that "we have too long been a passive, tolerant society that has promised to let the citizens of our being in peace as long as they comply with the law."


By the millennium, there were not many who envisioned that citizens in developed democracies as soon would have to defend the right to an open society facing its own leaders. Post-terror generation turning from fear to sense


Yet the balance of power in the process of reversing. A post-terror generation emerge, a generation that no longer defines the world from a single tragedy. For the first time since the September 11 attacks, we see the outlines of a policy that turns away from the reaction and fear and would rather stand for flexibility and common sense.


For each victory in the courtroom, for each amendment, we show that the facts are more convincing than fear. And as a society, we find that the value of a right does not lie in what it hides, but what it protects.

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