Thursday has been designated by activists joined in Reset...
Thursday has been designated by activists joined in Reset the Net as a day of advocacy against government surveillance. Activities (https://www.resetthenet.org/) organized by Fight the Future, a partnership of tech companies like Google, Mozilla and Reddit, and advocacy groups like…
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the Electronic Frontier Foundation are set for Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the first revelations related to documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden. Since then, the government has “rebellion on their hands as tech companies and Internet users work together to directly intervene in mass surveillance and block the NSA and its kind from the web,” said Tiffiniy Cheng, spokeswoman for Fight for the Future, in a statement. Snowden also issued a statement through his lawyer (http://bit.ly/1mSEhDC). “We have the technology, and adopting encryption is the first effective step that everyone can take to end mass surveillance,” he said. “Don’t ask for your privacy. Take it back."