Edward Snowden to speak at SXSW
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who helped expose the agency's widespread surveillance program, will speak about how spying has impacted the technology community at the SXSW Interactive Festival on Monday, March 10.
The discussion will also center around how technology can and should be used to guard citizens from mass surveillance.
Snowden, who will speak via videoconference, will be joined by Christopher Soghoian, principal technologist of the American Civil Liberties Union. The conversation will be moderated by Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy & Technology Project and Snowden's legal advisor.
The Texas Tribune will livestream the panel, which begins at 11:00 a.m. CST. Click here to watch.
The decision to provide a platform for Snowden is not without its detractors. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) wrote to SXSW organizers Thursday urging them to withdraw their invitation to Snowden:
Rewarding Mr. Snowden’s behavior in this way encourages the very lawlessness he exhibited. Such lawlessness—and the ongoing intentional distortion of truth that he and his media enablers have engaged in since the release of these documents—undermines the very fairness and freedom that SXSW and the ACLU purport to foster. I strongly urge you to withdraw this invitation.
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