{"id":55699,"date":"2015-03-23T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=55699"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:25:56","slug":"snowden-mass-surveillance-wont-stop-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/03\/snowden-mass-surveillance-wont-stop-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowden: Mass Surveillance Won\u2019t Stop Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 16, 2015 &#8211; <\/em>Edward Snowden has slammed governments such as the USA, UK and Australia, calling for them to stop \u201cweasling their way out\u201d by calling mass surveillance terms like \u201cbulk collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55700\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/edward-snowden.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55700\" class=\"wp-image-55700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/edward-snowden.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Snowden speaks via video chat in Germany on March 15. Photo: EPA\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/edward-snowden.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/edward-snowden-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Snowden speaks via video chat in Germany on March 15. Photo: EPA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking in a video interview at FutureFest in London, Snowden defended spying as a whole, but wanted surveillance to be done for a purpose and not to be conducted over all of us.<\/p>\n<p>He referenced both the Sydney siege and Charlie Hedbo attacks, noting that the attackers in both incidents were known to governments already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to stop the next attacks either,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause they\u2019re not public safety programs. They\u2019re spying programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the question that we as a society have to ask, are our collective rights worth a small advantage in our ability to spy,\u201d Snowden added.<\/p>\n<p>This article <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/technology\/online\/edward-snowden-mass-surveillance-wont-stop-terrorism\/story-fnjwnfzw-1227265355926\" >originally appeared<\/a> on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/\" >News.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/03\/16\/snowden-mass-surveillance-wont-stop-terrorism\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 nypost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not going to stop the next attacks either,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause they\u2019re not public safety programs. They\u2019re spying programs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}