Re: [NRW-KV-Wesel] Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr

[Rudolf Lörcks <rudolf.loercks AT arcor.de>]

Ebenso frohe Weihnachtsgrüße in die Runde.

Da "A Christmas Message From Edward Snowden" anscheinend aktuell
aufgrund Urheberrechtliche Einschränkungen nicht mehr überall verfügbar
ist, hier der Text der Ansprache zum Nachlesen.



    Hi. And Merry Christmas. I am honored to have a chance to speak with
you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments,
working in concert, have created system of worldwide mass surveillance
watching everything we do.

    Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind
of information. The types of collection in the book, microphones, video
cameras, TVs that watch us, are nothing compared to what we have
available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track us everywhere
we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average
person. A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at
all.

    They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to
themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem.
Because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we
are and who we want to be.

    The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust
we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government
that regulates it. Together we can find a better balance, end mass
surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know
how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.

    For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.


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Gru0 Rudolf