Harari and Snowden on surveillance and privacy in the age of crisis

In recent interviews both Yuval Noah Harari and Edward Snowden have discussed the future after 2020. Specifically around the issues of surveillance, personal data, and privacy in the age of global crisis.

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and a professor. He is the author of the bestselling books Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014), Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018). His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence and happiness.

Edward Snowden is a whistleblower who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in United States. His disclosures revealed global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA with the cooperation of telecom and technology companies and governments, and prompted public discussions about national security and citizen privacy.

Facing the crisis of 2020, the views of Harari and Snowden echo each other and they converge around the critical choices being made right now that will have long-term impacts. They discuss the current state of surveillance and privacy as governments around the world enact technical measures to combat the pandemic. Snowden lays out the workings of the technical details, and Harari expands his thoughts to what happens when the monitoring of citizens goes underneath the skin.

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