Edward Snowden: Governments can transform people into ‘tagged animals’

May 2016 – SURVEILLANCE – Edward Snowden says governments taking advantage of the world’s dependence on round-the-clock communication can essentially transform people into ‘tagged animals.’ Snowden went on to say, ‘By preying on the modern necessity to stay connected, governments can reduce our dignity to something like that of tagged animals, the primary difference being that we paid for the tags and they are in our pockets,’ Snowden writes in a new book, excerpted in Tuesday’s Guardian newspaper.
‘It sounds like fantasist paranoia, but on the technical level it is so trivial to implement that I cannot imagine a future in which it won’t be attempted.

This post was published at UtopiatheCollapse on May 4, 2016.