Edward Snowden: How we’ve given up ownership of our digital lives
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What feels like a choice online often isn’t, it’s something we’re required to accept just to participate in modern life.
Filmed in 2024 at NEARCON/REDACTED
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uh it was set to like a passive monitoring mode. they could, you know, stick their nets in the uh flow of the ocean and pull up the by catch. uh which was all of our lives, all of our activities, all of our purchases, all of our reading, all of our interaction, the games you play, what time you're where your phone is traveling, the cell phone uh location uh information, cell site location uh information, all of these
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little things which um individually didn't mean much, but in aggregate were a perfect picture of our lives.