Snowden: Privacy & Authoritarianism in the Digital Age; Internet, Bitcoin, Crypto, KYC & CBDC ⛓️🌐⛓️

Snowden discusses the collusion between Big Tech and Government surveillance and authoritarianism. That the internet was taken over by these entities and no longer resembles what it was designed to do. How Crypto can be weaponized against us via KYC Exchanges, and CBDC will lead to Social Credit Scores & Slavery. Our right to Privacy is Non-Negotiable. We need to be vigilant, stop laying down and helping the Government by using Internet Browsers, Search Engines, Social Media and Devices designed to monitor and control our lives.Show more

"Members of the crypto community largely aren't taking this seriously enough," Snowden told the audience at Camp Decrypt.

Three months after the U.S. government blacklisted the Ethereum mixing tool Tornado Cash, Edward Snowden called it a "do or die moment" that people in the crypto community "largely aren't taking seriously enough."

Snowden, who exposed an unlawful mass surveillance program by the NSA nearly 10 years ago and fled the United States, also helped launch the privacy coin Zcash in 2016, a leaked video earlier this year revealed. Over the past few years, he has been a vocal crypto advocate, though he has said that Bitcoin is still not private enough.

Tornado Cash, launched in 2019, is a blockchain protocol that helps users pool and "mix" coins so as to mask the origin and destination of their transactions. In August, OFAC (the Office of Foreign Assets Control, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department), added the Tornado Cash website and a long list of Ethereum wallet addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals list, banning American citizens from using the tool. The action meant that centralized crypto projects had to choose whether to comply with OFAC by banning wallet address that had interacted with Tornado Cash, or be in non-compliance.

Snowden, speaking remotely from Russia to a room of 75 people at Camp Decrypt in Napa Valley on October 27, said Tornado Cash is "simply a tool, it does nothing without human provocation" and compared it to a water fountain in a public park.

"You push the button and privacy comes out," he said. "It doesn't do anything unless you push it, but it's a very simple thing. The suggestion that this is a bad thing, much less the kind of thing that merits granting the government a new and largely unlimited sanctions authority—to say nothing of kicking in the door and like imprisoning the poor bastard who was decent enough to build this in the park in the first place for us to benefit from—that is something that is deeply illiberal and profoundly authoritarian," said Snowden.

READ MORE: https://decrypt.co/114973/edward-snowden-ethereum-mixer-tornado-cash-illiberal-authoritarian

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