"I just want to get this data to the world." - Sunday Cinema Reflections: Snowden (2016)

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thelynx (54) · 6 years ago

Oh, the shame of being outed publicly for not having an understanding of the Edward Snowden story! ;)

I so enjoyed the experience of watching this movie with you, being able to punctuate it with questions and clarifications and related conversations. Being the interpersonal nerd that I am, the concrete (and impersonal) details of the convoluted innerworkings of large organizations of people can sometimes go over my head. I appreciate your taking the time to unpack and put some of those into context, so that I could more fully appreciate the power of the overall theme (while learning a few of those contextual details along the way).

I particularly like the way Snowden phrased the point that "arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." Not feeling that one has anything to hide certainly seems to be a common reason to not care about the issue of data privacy. This movie has (re)opened some important questions for me about the value of privacy (as a value, not just as a personal experience), who/what we trust to access and control our personal information, and why we trust/fail to question them.

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kennyskitchen (72) · 6 years ago

Haha, sorry love! It's definitely a topic that most people have little to no understanding or awareness of, and I'm so happy we got to dive down that rabbit hole together :-)

I so look forward to lots more reading, watching, and listening with you, taking our time and discussing things as we go :-)

Definitely most who aren't worried about their privacy seem to fall back on the idea that they have "nothing to hide", but I think that most of them aren't really considering just how much private information, personal communications, etc they do online. Also, as we saw in the movie, the ability to activate & record from people's webcams/phones even when they aren't on opens up a whole realm folks don't consider. Even if someone never talks about anything "secretive" online, just one time getting naked while their computer was in the room would certainly create some content they have no desire for others to have.

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