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The Future of Surveillance with Edward Snowden

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Event
  • Session
  • Saturday, 13 July 2019
  • 10:13 - 10:13
  • Duration: 1 hr 2 mins
  • Publication date: 18 Jul 2019
  • Location: Conference, Friends House
  • Part of event Orgcon19

About the session

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency was seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the most significant reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. He has received awards for courage, integrity, and public service, and was named the top global thinker of 2013 by Foreign Policy magazine.

Joining ORGCon via remote link, Edward will discuss the future of government surveillance and the UK’s role in it.

Keywords:
  • Snowden
  • cyber
  • cybersecurity
  • data
  • democracy
  • digital privacy
  • free expression
  • government surveillance
  • security
  • surveillance

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  • Edward Snowden

    Edward Snowden

    Edward Snowden is a former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as subject matter expert on technology and cybersecurity. In 2013, he revealed that the NSA was seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing, resulting in the most significant reforms to US surveillance policy since 1978. He has received awards for courage, integrity, and public service, and was named the top global thinker of 2013 by Foreign Policy magazine. Today he works on methods of enforcing human rights through the application and development of new technologies. He joined the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation in February 2014.
  • Martin Bright

    Martin Bright

    Martin Bright is the former political editor of the New Statesman and the Jewish Chronicle and former home affairs editor of the Observer. In 2003, he broke the story of the plot to spy on United Nations delegates in the run-up to the Iraq War. His source, GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, is now the subject of a Hollywood film, Official Secrets, starring Keira Knightley. He now runs the charity, Creative Society, which helps young people break into the creative industries.
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