“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.”

— Edward Snowden

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edward-snowden-after-months-of-nsa-revelations-says-his-missions-accomplished/2013/12/23/49fc36de-6c1c-11e3-a523-fe73f0ff6b8d_story.html 2013 Christmas Message

26 December 2013

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Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

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Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor

“An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

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“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.”

Phil Zimmermann (1954) creator of Pretty Good Privacy

Why I Wrote PGP http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html, Part of the original 1991 PGP User's Guide (updated in 1999)

“…there is nothing like a 'private home' online, because we don't sleep there, and we don't need toilets or showers there. So a lot of the privacy issues in the real world -- like what the police can seize without a warrant, or whether you have to admit your identity when asked -- don't really play online. Online privacy is seldom about private property, but about access to information.”

Stowe Boyd (1953) information technologist

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Alan Rusbridger (1953) British newspaper editor

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“Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others.”

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