Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see — and write about — the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States’ extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide.”
A computer displays a day in the life of the common man in the early years of the 21st century seen through internet video data, using a basic chronological keyword research : ‘Moonset’, ‘Sunrise’, ‘Waking’, ‘Breakfast’…
As we record the littlest details of our lives on the Internet, it tends to become an incredible humankind testimony for the future and human Memory now depends on computer’s hard drives.
Europol and F-Secure wanted to highlight how rarely people read terms and conditions pages, which are often long and difficult to understand. In the experiment, the hotspot’s terms and conditions page promised free Wi-Fi if “the recipient agreed to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity.” Six people agreed.