The battle for privacy has been lost and mass surveillance is here to stay, according to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Speaking as part of a panel discussion during RT’s 10th-anniversary conference via live feed, Assange, who has been imprisoned within the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past three years, stunned the audience with his sobering assessment.
The panel discussion was titled: Security or Surveillance: Can the right to privacy and effective anti-terror security coexist in the digital age?
The WikiLeaks founder wasted no time in revealing his thoughts when asked by the moderator about the right of privacy, how that is defined around the world, anti-terror security, and the relationship between them in the digital age.
“In thinking about this issue I want to take quite a different position, perhaps, from what you would expect me to have taken. I have, for 20 years, been writing about the National Security Agency and mass surveillance… I think that we should understand that the game for privacy is gone. It’s gone. The mass surveillance is here to stay,” Assange said.
Mass surveillance has had a trickle-down effect, whereby not only large and mid-sized states are engaging in this unethical act of spying on the innocent, but even small countries are now spying on their own citizens after the de facto approval by the world’s most powerful nations. Full story...
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The panel discussion was titled: Security or Surveillance: Can the right to privacy and effective anti-terror security coexist in the digital age?
The WikiLeaks founder wasted no time in revealing his thoughts when asked by the moderator about the right of privacy, how that is defined around the world, anti-terror security, and the relationship between them in the digital age.
“In thinking about this issue I want to take quite a different position, perhaps, from what you would expect me to have taken. I have, for 20 years, been writing about the National Security Agency and mass surveillance… I think that we should understand that the game for privacy is gone. It’s gone. The mass surveillance is here to stay,” Assange said.
Mass surveillance has had a trickle-down effect, whereby not only large and mid-sized states are engaging in this unethical act of spying on the innocent, but even small countries are now spying on their own citizens after the de facto approval by the world’s most powerful nations. Full story...
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