25 Jun, 2014
Glenn Greenwald: ‘What I Tell People Who Say They Don’t Care About Their Privacy’ | Alternet
June 20, 2014 | Since he obtained and published Edward Snowden’s leaked National Security Agency documents a little more than a year ago, journalist Glenn Greenwald said people have told him over and over that government surveillance does not concern them.
“Those people don’t believe what they’re saying,” he told a sold-out audience last week at the Nourse Theater in San Francisco.
To illustrate this, every time someone would come up to Greenwald and say they didn’t mind people knowing what they were doing because they had nothing to hide, he would proceed with the same two steps: first, by giving them his email address and then by asking them to send him all their email and social media passwords — just so he could have a look.
“I’ve not had one single person send me them,” he said, as the room swelled with laughter. “And I check my email box constantly!”
The humorous anecdote, Greenwald said, exemplifies how people instinctively understand how privacy is vital to who we are. Just as much as we need to be social, we need a place where we can go to learn and think without others passing judgment on us.
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