EFF30 Fireside Chat: Surveillance, with Edward Snowden

Join us for a candid live discussion with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn, EFF Director of Engineering for Certbot Alexis Hancock, and EFF Policy Analyst Matthew Guariglia as they weigh in on surveillance in our culture, activism, and the future of privacy.

Democracy, social movements, our relationships, and your own well being all require private space to thrive. But state actors and law enforcement reach for persistent mass surveillance tech with disturbing frequency. Privacy activists and ordinary people around the world stand before a growing arsenal of invasive tools in the hands of criminals and state actors alike. Our guests will discuss how mass surveillance changed us and our odds of fighting back.

[TRACELHENTZ]

Thank you EFF, we appreciate you beyond words

[cyberjujo]

How is gods name does this video and channel not have millions of views????

[hualani]

Nice to see fresh upload and Updated material, including these experts (OMG everyone looks so young!)TYVM, pls do more!

[CajunMomma]

Such an insightful discussion the breakdown of certificates was very useful. Thank you for hosting this fireside

[oldones]

Peace and good health everyone. No permission necessary😀

[BowBeforeTheAlgorithm]

Certbot and Let’s Encrypt are flipping awesome! Thanks for all the work and perserverance!

[Douglas_Gillette]

Snowden is providing the value to this conversation.

[nikipound]

I was really looking forward to everyone's answers to the question about what the world looks like if we get this right.

[AliceVixie]

Too bad Edward Snowden had this nice microphone visible but obviously his voice was recorded by a different one.
And what's more: people should learn to mute their microphone when they are not talking to prevent ugly sound artifacts caused by acoustic feedback.

[goldnutter]

Great discussion.. of course any chance I get I must say. Thanks ED !! amazing it has been so long and its always so nice to see you smile

re HTTPS and TLS.. Big fan of DECO.works hopefully we are past the worst and economic recovery prospects are as I am expecting .. this trust in math not people 4IR we are about to really see kick off.. ANY comments on any of it and the OCEAN protocol and other privacy preserving data market protocols that are either here or about to be launched ? STREAMr was a very interesting one and the SWASHapp running on OCEAN would be a good case study :-)

Data economy.. thankfully not just a small subset of rich silos as the beneficiaries. There is an interesting dichotomy coming perhaps ? I am starting to see how valuable many worthless old machines and even backups can be at just the right point in this paradigm shift.. especially backups with all those cookies and things from long ago ? wont there be hard drive scraping tools soon if not already that could create these data sets to put to market.. imagine how many people have been used "if you dont know what the product is YOU are the product" lol.. flipping the script and saying well might as well sell these as packages of anonymized consumerised human behaviour or some shit !

Sort of like the niche profiteering the survey or consumer profiling stuff.. but with far more profitability and really.. long term isn't the whole process we seem to be unable to avoid as a whole.. going to mean evolutionary leap is coming at us fast ? social system.. growingly interconnected and with so many friction points and crucibles of things like social media creating.. real insight on the human condition lol

Fascinating how predictable almost everyone is.. fear based society. If only history had a quote about fear right ;-) oh..

Much love to all.. watching from afar and intermittently. Data overload is so easy to fall into, every time I go rabbit holing.

[goldnutter]

26:00 this is.. well revelatory kinda stuff..

TOOL being deployed/leveraged by someone who is not trained to use it is a recipe for disaster. Good thing we haven't created oh wait nevermind

[sandroitsme]

So... I'm a new viewer (a little older) and watching the intro I kept thinking that Cindy was HOT! But, by the time it took her 9 minutes to stop rambling and let Ed Snowden finally speak, the shine had worn off our relationship :(

[childrenslivesmatter]

People are hoping Mr. Snowden can give more information on The IRON FIST program that the FBI uses on political activists like the BLM activists and journalists and others.
Also, Fusion Centers and The Infragard that are also ran by the FBI. There are people who are being victimized by this "program" right now.
It needs to be recognized and addressed.