Snowden Issues Surveillance Warning To Israelis

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US whistleblower Edward Snowden urged Israelis to be on guard against heavy-handed government and private surveillance in a speech by video link Tuesday and defended his 2013 massive leak of classified documents.

Snowden highlighted Israel’s high-tech capabilities, but warned that accepting too much government surveillance and too easily acceding to the argument that it is needed for security reasons posed serious risks.

“If we can allow ourselves to be terrorized by someone with nothing but a knife, to reorder our societies for the convenience of state power … we’ve stopped being citizens and we’ve started being subjects,” said Snowden, who spoke from an undisclosed location in Moscow.

 

Read more at Arutz Sheva.

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  1. Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are the true heroes in the world with lots of credibility. The Israeli government should consider carefully what he has to say.

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