The Snowden Effect

Barton Gellman

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Three years after Edward Snowden began reaching out to journalists, Barton Gellman among them, the cascading effects of his leak remain impressive. Gellman offers a fresh account of the disclosures and their aftershocks, drawing upon hundreds of hours of work with the classified NSA archive and scores of hours of interviews with Snowden. How is the balance of power changing in the legal, political and technological struggle to define the boundaries of electronic privacy?

 
Sep 24th, 6:00 PM

The Snowden Effect

Loeb Auditorium

Three years after Edward Snowden began reaching out to journalists, Barton Gellman among them, the cascading effects of his leak remain impressive. Gellman offers a fresh account of the disclosures and their aftershocks, drawing upon hundreds of hours of work with the classified NSA archive and scores of hours of interviews with Snowden. How is the balance of power changing in the legal, political and technological struggle to define the boundaries of electronic privacy?