I personally do, he actually risked his life to release information about the government spying on people. And there are for sure more advanced ways now. Even your phone is listening.
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There are a lot of comments here saying "it's tragic because no-one cared", but that is misleading as there is now a strong privacy movement.
I think, without Snowden blowing the whistle, anti-privacy laws would not face such stiff competition.
Yes we're all fighting a rearguard retreat, but without Snowden's sacrifice there would be no rearguard and there would be abject surrender rather than retreat, and we'd all live under eastern-style surveillance states without ever knowing.
You think there's much opposition to laws and decisions that erode privacy? In the US in particular privacy has been eroding at an increasing rate year after year.
That's exactly what the comment you're responding to is saying, with the additional observation that there would be even less resistance without the Snowden leaks.
And what I'm saying is that there isn't any evidence that the Snowden leaks resulted in people caring about their privacy.
I am an American who cares about privacy largely because of Snowden. His book was very eye opening, and a great read. So that's at least 1 person
Where you fighting that fight because everybody who seems to care is also removing themselves from all social media. They keep saying they're doing things locally like ....
Meeting in coffee shops?
Like weirdly I've had this phrase said to me multiple times and it's so silly. Hold on guys I'm going to release a new movie I spent years making. I refuse to use the space with millions of people cause I don't like who created it. I'm going to stand around Starbucks and tell people about it. Find me 40 years to build up a cult following