Edward Snowden tells students mass data collection can hamper attempts to foil attacks
Source: CBC News
U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower and international fugitive Edward Snowden told students at Upper Canada College that the mass collection of data by government spy agencies can get in the way of foiling terrorist plots.
Such programs can sometimes take resources away from targeted data collection of specific threats, Snowden, told students at the private school in Toronto, where he was invited to speak.
"The problem with mass surveillance is when you collect everything, you understand nothing," he said during the video conference Monday evening.
... Snowden told students that sometimes media coverage has focused too heavily on himself and not enough on the issues raised by the revelations of mass data collection. "Whether or not I’m Mother Teresa or Adolf Hitler, that has bearing no whatsoever on the content of the reporting," he said.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/edward-snowden-tells-students-mass-data-collection-can-hamper-attempts-to-foil-attacks-1.2940798
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and stop yapping our flap. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
".. Snowden told students that sometimes media coverage has focused too heavily on himself and not enough on the issues raised by the revelations of mass data collection. "Whether or not I’m Mother Teresa or Adolf Hitler, that has bearing no whatsoever on the content of the reporting," he said."
dictated by the corporate class
Yeah.. that's funny!
And this is the second bump,
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Big Brother!!!
Much as that must irk you...
http://www.ucc.on.ca/2015/01/28/edward-snowden-announced-as-keynote-for-world-affairs-conference-on-feb-2/
I'm sure he's bragging to someone in Russia who wishes he'd just leave them alone as we speak 
:large
Fuckin' hypocrites..."It's not about Snowden" has always been code for "Don't ask him any hard questions other than how awesome does he think he is..."
But when it's time for praise and admiration, it's *ALL* about Snow-Wald
Not to mention Barack Obama!
There all just doing it for the "praise and admiration"!
I mean why else would people be fooled into admiring them? They all must have hypnotic powers. It can't possibly be because each of those mentioned has achieved, or contributed something important to the world.
