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Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48428963

I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.

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[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 15 hours ago

He gave people information that they otherwise wouldn't have, regarding the surveillance state at the time. Definitely good for the common person, bad for the government.

I do wish there was more done about it. It seems like not enough happened and now things are even worse with the thousands of internet trackers, Google, Meta, Flock, etc... We needed some kind of privacy protections but we didn't get enough and now we're here, on platforms like Lemmy, avoiding the all-knowing algorithm as much as possible.

How did we go from "Ahh! The government can listen to our phonecalls and read our emails!" to "Sure Big Tech, train your AI on my personal photos, location, usage habits, and manipulate my internet experience for profit! Please do!!!"