Edward Snowden NSA

That’s a fear I’m gonna live with for the rest of my life, however long that has to be. You can’t come forward against the world’s most powerful intelligence agency and be completely free from risk because they’re such powerful adversaries that no one can meaningfully oppose them. If they want to get you, they’ll get you in time.

But at the same time you have to make a determination about what it is that’s important to you and living…living unfreely but comfortably is something you’re willing to accept, and I think many of us are, this is human nature, you can get up every day, you can go to work, you can collect your large paycheck for relatively little work against the public interest and go to sleep at night after watching the shows, but if you realize that that’s the world you help to create and it’s gonna get worse in the next generation and the next generation, you’ll extend the capabilities of the architecture of oppression, you realize that you may light willing to accept any risk and it doesn’t matter what the outcome is so long as the public gets to make their own decisions about how it’s applied.

Why should we care about surveillance ?

Because even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re watched and recorded and then storage capabilities of these systems increases every year consistently by order of magnitude where it’s getting to the point you don’t have to done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually have raised suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call and then they can use this system to go back in time to scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and pay to anyone in the context of wrong doer.