- ‘Unlimited reach, no safeguards’: Snowden warns Archived Message
Posted by Tomski
on June 2, 2019, 2:13 am
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Snowden is speaking from Moscow, the video sound gets distorted after an hour. https://www.rt.com/news/460854-snowden-surveillance-social-control/ ‘Unlimited reach, no safeguards’: Snowden warns of greatest social control scheme in human history Published time: 1 Jun, 2019 23:56 The US government has a tendency to hijack and weaponize revolutionary innovations, Edward Snowden said, noting that natural human desire to communicate with each other is now being exploited on an unprecedented scale. “Our utopian vision for the future is never guaranteed to be realized,” Snowden told the audience in Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada via live stream from Moscow this week, stressing that the US government “corrupted our knowledge... towards a military purpose.” They took our nuclear capability and transformed it into the most horrible weapon that the world had ever witnessed. And we’re seeing an atomic moment of computer science... Its reach is unlimited...but its safeguards are not! The whistleblower, who in 2013 leaked a trove of highly classified information about global spying operations by the National Security Agency, argued that armed with modern technology and with the help of social media and tech giants the governments are becoming “all-powerful” in their ability to monitor, analyze and influence citizens’ behavior. It's through the use of new platforms and algorithms that are built on and around these capabilities that they are able to shift our behavior. In some cases, they are able to predict our decisions and also nudge them to different outcomes. The whistleblower, who in 2013 leaked a trove of highly classified information about global spying operations by the National Security Agency, argued that armed with modern technology and with the help of social media and tech giants the governments are becoming “all-powerful” in their ability to monitor, analyze and influence citizens’ behavior. It's through the use of new platforms and algorithms that are built on and around these capabilities that they are able to shift our behavior. In some cases, they are able to predict our decisions and also nudge them to different outcomes. |
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