{"id":65410,"date":"2023-06-10T05:50:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65410"},"modified":"2023-06-10T05:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T10:50:27","slug":"snowden-warns-todays-surveillance-technology-makes-2013-look-like-childs-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65410","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward Snowden said in an interview on June 8, 2023 that advances in surveillance technology have made it far easier for government agencies to spy on citizens than it was in 2013, when he first disclosed the broad use of spying by the NSA and other agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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With this week marking 10 years since whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed information to journalists about widespread government spying by United States and British agencies, the former National Security Agency contractor on Thursday joined other advocates in warning that the fight for privacy rights, while making several inroads in the past decade, has grown harder due to major changes in technology.<\/p>\n

“If we think about what we saw in 2013 and the capabilities of governments today,” Snowden\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>, “2013 seems like child’s play.”<\/p>\n

Snowden said that the advent of commercially available surveillance products such as Ring cameras, Pegasus spyware, and facial recognition technology has posed new dangers.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Common Dreams<\/em>\u00a0has reported, the home security company Ring has\u00a0faced legal challenges<\/a>\u00a0due to security concerns and its products’ vulnerability to hacking, and has\u00a0faced criticism<\/a>\u00a0from rights groups for partnering with more than 1,000 police departments\u2014including some with histories of police violence\u2014and leaving community members vulnerable to harassment or wrongful arrests.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement agencies have also begun using facial recognition technology to identify crime suspects despite the fact that the software\u00a0is known to<\/a>\u00a0frequently misidentify people of color\u2014leading to the\u00a0wrongful arrest and detention<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year of Randal Reid in Georgia, among other cases.<\/p>\n

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Edward Snowden said in an interview on June 8, 2023 that advances in surveillance technology have made it far easier for government agencies to spy on citizens than it was in 2013, when he first disclosed the broad use of spying by the NSA and other agencies. (Image: Screenshot\/Citizenfour) Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,379,18352,5570],"class_list":["post-65410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-government","tag-julia-conley","tag-mass-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65411,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65410\/revisions\/65411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}