Edward Snowden Criticizes Australia’s Dangerous Mass Surveillance
Just days ago US court ruled out mass surveillance illegal, which Edward Snowden says it is significant. Since it is one of the most respected court in US.
Speaking at a Progress 2015 Conference in Melbourne from Moscow, Edward Snowden Says Australia collecting meta data is dangerous.
Nine times out of 10 when you see someone on the news who’s engaged in some sort of radical jihadist activity, these are people who had a long record
He continues, by having so much data, “we wasted so many man power, we didn’t prioritize the resources” .
What this means is they are watching everybody all the time. They’re collecting information and they’re just putting it in buckets that they can then search through not only locally, not only in Australia, but they can then share this with foreign intelligences services… They can trawl through this information in the same way. Whether or not you’re doing anything wrong you’re being watched
Whether or not you’re doing anything wrong, you’re being watched… Under these mandatory metadata laws you can immediately see who journalists are contacting, from which you can derive who their sources are
The purpose of the free press in society is to do exactly this sort of thing — to act as an adversary against the government on behalf of the public
