Snowden on Your [Meta]Data: You must become Auhoritative Broker and Rightsholder

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https://www.periscope.tv/PardonSnowden/1vOxwgnXeYLxB
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/13/edward-snowden-says-the-central-problem-of-the-future-is-control-of-user-data/

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden via Periscope about
the wide world of technology. The NSA whistleblower "discussed the
data that many online companies continue to collect about their users,
creating a 'quantified world' -- and more opportunities for government
surveillance,". Snowden said, "If you are being tracked, this is
something you should agree to, this is something you should
understand, this is something you should be aware of and can change at
any time." Snowden acknowledged that there's a distinction between
collecting the content of your communication (i.e., what you said
during a phone call) and the metadata (information like who you called
and how long it lasted). For some, surveillance that just collects
metadata might seem less alarming, but in Snowden's view, "That
metadata is in many cases much more dangerous and much more intrusive,
because it can be understood at scale." He added that we currently
face unprecedented perils because of all the data that's now available
-- in the past, there was no way for the government to get a list of
all the magazines you'd read, or every book you'd checked out from the
library. "[In the past,] your beliefs, your future, your hopes, your
dreams belonged to you," Snowden said. "Increasingly, these things
belong to companies, and these companies can share them however they
want, without a lot of oversight." He wasn't arguing that companies
shouldn't collect user data at all, but rather that "the people who
need to be in control of that are the users." "This is the central
problem of the future, is how do we return control of our identities
to the people themselves?" Snowden said.