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  • Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honoured to have the chance to speak with you and your family

  • this year. Recently, we learned that our governments working in concert have created a system of

  • worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do.

  • Whistleblower Edward Snowden warns of the dangers posed by a loss of privacy in a message

  • broadcast on Channel 4 on Christmas Day.

  • Great Britain's George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information. The

  • types of collection in the book- microphones, video cameras, TVs that watch us are nothing

  • compared to what we have available today. We have sensors in our pockets that track

  • us everywhere we go. Think about what this means for the privacy of the average person.

  • The two-minute message was thought to be recorded in Moscow, where Snowden has been granted

  • temporary asylum. He went on to talk about his worries for the future.

  • A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what

  • it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded and unanalysed thought. And

  • that's a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who

  • we are, and who we want to be. The conversation occurring today will determine the amount

  • of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that

  • regulates it. Together, we can find a better balance. End mass surveillance, and remind

  • the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper

  • than spying.

  • Channel 4's Alternative Message has been going since 1993. Previous speakers include the

  • president of Iran and the cartoon character Marge Simpson.

  • For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.

Hi, and Merry Christmas. I'm honoured to have the chance to speak with you and your family

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愛德華-斯諾登的另類聖誕賀詞2013 (Edward Snowden's Alternative Christmas Message 2013)

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