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Video: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald & David Miranda Call for Global Privacy Treaty

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 The proposed International Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers would require states to ban mass data collection and implement public oversight of national security programs. The treaty would also require states to offer asylum to whistleblowers. It is being dubbed the "Snowden Treaty." At a launch event last week, Edward Snowden spoke about the need for the treaty via teleconference from Russia. "This is not a problem exclusive to the United States or the National Security Agency or the FBI or the Department of Justice or any agency of government anywhere. This is a global problem that affects all of us," Snowden said.

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EDWARD SNOWDEN: We've already changed culture. We can discuss things now that five years back, if you had brought them up in a serious conversation, would have gotten you sort of labelled as a conspiracy theorist or someone who really was a—was not really thinking about what governments reasonably are likely to do.


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