John Oliver, Privacy International & Ryan Gallagher on mass surveillance

In the light of The Intercept's latest story on the Snowden documents, could I recommend revisiting John Oliver on government surveillance plus his Snowden interview...



 ... and Privacy International's short videos on communications surveillance, big data, data protection, metadata and privacy

It's only metadata...

Privacy International have a terrific 4 minute animated explanation of metadata.

Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet

The Berkman Center at Harvard has hosted a 90 minute discussion on  Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet involving Yochai Benkler, Bruce Schneier and Jonathan Zittrain, Terry Fisher plus John DeLong and Anne Neuberger the latter two being from the National Security Agency.



The video is essential viewing and John Naughton's thoughts triggered by the discussion are also well worth a further 5 to 10 minutes of your time.

Cory Doctorow & Barton Gellman at SXSW

Cory Doctorow and Barton Gellman discussing Edward Snowden, secure communications, encryption tools so easy your boss can use them, privacy, the revealing nature of metadata and mass surveillance, at SXSW should be required viewing.