Snowden at CeBIT
The whistleblower Edward Snowden is speaking at CeBIT 2017 via a video link. Interested parties can ask him their questions now on Twitter.
Germany. Where tomorrow’s hot topics are already discussed today: CeBIT 2017 is once again focusing on digitalisation. “Explore the Digital World” is the motto of CeBIT Global Conferences, which is being held in Hanover in March. The opportunities and risks of digitalisation will be explored in 150 lectures on subjects from artificial intelligence and big data to the Internet of Things and virtual reality.
Privacy in the age of surveillance
This year, the organisers of the world’s largest IT fair have pulled off a major coup: whistleblower Edward Snowden will be addressing visitors to CeBIT Global Conferences via a video link on Tuesday, 21 March at 5:30 pm. He will talk on “Data Security and Privacy in the Age of Surveillance”. Interested parties can already submit questions to Edward Snowden via Twitter using the hashtag #ESatCGC17. Chairman Brent Goff will pass on as many of them as possible to the former intelligence service employee from the stage at the international digital conference.
Surveillance of Internet communication
Snowden spent many years working as a technical expert and systems administrator, among others, for the US intelligence services CIA and NSA. On ethical grounds, in spring 2013 he decided to approach the investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald and film-maker Laura Poitras, both US citizens, with extensive material. The first reports were published in June 2013 and revealed the previously unexpected comprehensive surveillance of global digital communication by Western intelligence services. Edward Snowden has lived in Moscow since 2013.
