Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Viss I get you, I'm just saying that's an indication that there's a bigger problem. When you see even infosec experts effectively engaging in acts of flagrant self-harm, it's socially irresponsible to go simply go "welp, people are dumb" -- even if it's true. To do good, we do better. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Snowden: Citizens would rise up in outrage if the government mandated that every person carry a tracking device revealing their locatio… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@koreyspk @unitedfreedom3 @ATT If one does it and the others find out, they do it too. That's the sad reality of American business. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@jonboguth @Viss The frivolity argument died when Google, Facebook, & other SDKs started got baked into thousands, possible millions of apps, small and large. Travel, navigation, communication, health, news, commerce, banking, and yes--even home & utilities--are not frivolous, yet app-mediated. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Viss This is the long way of saying you can't hold the world at ransom and then claim, because every six year-old "agreed to survive," that they are bound by the hilarious unequal and exploitative terms they signed under duress. I say no, that is not consent. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Viss So: I don't believe a contract with wildly unfair terms applied to society at large can be considered valid. But if it were valid, it is still be misunderstood. And if it was somehow understood, it was still certainly signed under duress--out of necessity rather than consent. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@Viss I appreciate the point, but don't agree with the premise, because the language of consent is misapplied. 1) many of the most abusive apps today provide truly necessary function with no opt-out, if only due to network effect. 2) TOS are unfair, incomprehensible, change every week — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@unitedfreedom3 Yes, it limits what location data is shared by the phone's operating system with *apps*. It does nothing to prevent the actual phone companies controlling the cell towers you are dependent on from tracking & recording your movements. @ATT saves tower info going back to 2008! — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Citizens would rise up in outrage if the government mandated that every person carry a tracking device revealing their location and identity 24 hours a day. Yet in the last decade we have become, app by app, subject to just such a system. https://t.co/7BKn9VMTzW — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Your smartphone broadcasts your exact location thousands of times per day to dozens of different companies. Each has the power to follow individuals wherever they go, in near-real time. That’s not a glitch in the system. It is the system. https://t.co/2D8ttMKIWD — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Memeghnad: Sigh. @Snowden gets it. Relating to this part in his book so hard. (SS from Permanent Record) https://t.co/SLwpRZzxsz — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

It is a federal crime to open a piece of junk mail addressed to someone else. Listening to a phone call without a court order can also be a federal crime. But an increasing number of companies are warrantlessly tracking—and recording—your every movement. https://t.co/2D8ttMKIWD — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Even at protests, your phone is emitting a beacon, one that’s invisible to the human eye. This signal is captured and collected, sometimes many times per minute, and keeps broadcasting long after the protesters head to their homes and take off their masks. https://t.co/Oexxyfidqh — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @FreedomofPress: Time is running out to get your signed copy of @Snowden’s book! Donate $500 or more to @FreedomofPress, & we will send… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @arusbridger: More than 5 years after @snowden the police are no longer investigating me & my colleagues for doing journalism. Future ed… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @rj_gallagher: UK's @metpoliceuk has shelved its years-long investigation into journalists who reported on secret documents from @Snowde… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @zackwhittaker: For background, London's police had a long-running anti-terrorism investigation into the journalists who covered the Sno… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @shashj: Interesting and important in light of the potential changes to the Official Secrets Act being trailed this week. "The police we… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @arusbridger: Watch out for the reform of official secrecy. Expect to see an effective ban on any kind of meaningful national security r… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @Zoeyve: @SirDan007 @Snowden It’s accurate. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @CarlNasman: @Snowden does anyone know the source for this video? Where is it from and when was it taken? — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

The subtitles are very slightly more readable in this version of the video (via reddit). https://t.co/3YbR57DIiG — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

We are running out of time. https://t.co/oWXmQsP9B8 — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

It's *snow secret* you tortured Gul Rahman for weeks at a black site, then chained him naked to a concrete floor until he died in the near-winter cold. It's *snow secret* that today's CIA Director, Gina Haspel, was then the head of a related torture site. https://t.co/UjwEE3GXjb — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @AndrewYang: Facebook admitted this week that they track your location even when you’ve turned off location tracking — and then sell tha… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

Absent sweeping reform, this is the whole world in ten years. Remember: both parties in the US defend mass surveillance programs. China's "advantage" here is not technological, but that there's no strong civil opposition to slow the descent into nightmare. https://t.co/uhcrcRpMLL — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @aiww: UK-U.S. treaty bans extradition of Assange, lawyer says | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/uQEGtY3l2k — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @fbajak: Denied the proceeds of the sale of his memoir, @snowden suggests donations go to the families that sheltered him. https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

RT @lsjourneys: *GIVEAWAY* Still need a holiday gift? We can help! 24 hour flash giveaway of a signed copy of #Permanentrecord 🤓 Enter by f… — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

@v3ritas1337 I'd recommend donating to the families that helped me in Hong Kong. They need it more than I do. You can find a link here: https://t.co/NFs9gmQSOM — PolitiTweet.org