From ComputerWorld: "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all," Edward Snowden warned Wednesday in a message broadcast to U.K. television viewers.
"They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought," said Snowden, famous for leaking documents from the U.S. National Security Agency that reveal just how much of what we say, write and do is already recorded and analyzed.
"That's a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are, and who we want to be," Snowden said in "video message" recorded for Channel 4, a commercially funded public service broadcaster owned by the U.K. government.
The video, one minute 43 seconds in duration, was produced by Praxis Films, the production company of freelance journalist Laura Poitras, who has worked on a number of stories about NSA surveillance based on the documents Snowden leaked.
Channel 4 broadcast the video as The Alternative Christmas Message 2013, shortly after the BBC broadcast the Queen's traditional Christmas Message. The monarch's message has been a traditional feature of Christmas Day broadcasting since 1932, when the Queen's grandfather, King George V, delivered the first. Channel 4 began its series, The Alternative Christmas Message, in 1993. Previous speakers have included actors, teachers, a war veteran and, in 2008, the then President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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