The netherlands has not learned from the Snowden-disclosure, but makes its laws just get worse. That said Edward Snowden via a video link during the award ceremony of the Big Brother Awards. “If we stop defending privacy, we never go back,” said Snowden.
“What we have in the Netherlands is that the government has no lessons to draw, but just trying to make her laws to make things worse,” said Snowden via a video link, which is explicitly the AIVD and the MIVD called. Snowden referring to the introduction of new powers for the secret services.
At this moment the AIVD and the MIVD, not unfocused larger quantities of communication over physical cables draining, but the government wants to change that. The AIVD and the MIVD would have a larger amount of internet traffic allowed to filter back in to search. According to the whistleblower, who a year and a half ago a large amount of internal NSA documents leaked to journalists, try the Dutch government the American spionagepraktijken on the Netherlands to let loose.
Also for the introduction of the so-called decryptiebevel, which the government suspects may force their encryptiewachtwoorden to release, had Snowden not a good word to say about. “They force you to go against yourself, to witnesses in the courtroom,” said Snowden. “It is very dangerous.” Moreover, as signs Snowden: “Who in this room has never forget a password?”
The whistleblower, who, during the award ceremony of the Big Brother Awards, a prize for his contribution to the privacy, emphasized during his speech the importance of privacy. “If we stop defending privacy, we never go back,” said Snowden, who is currently in Russia to stay, and by the United States is sought because of his revelations. According to the whistleblower, privacy to more than just private information, but also to the freedom to make your own choices.
Snowden spoke during the presentation of the Big Brother Awards, which are awarded to the largest privacyschenders. Ivo Opstelten won for the fourth time that a ‘prize’, because he holds, although the European directive on which that law is based by the European Court of Justice of the table is swept. Also the process of getting the plans to the police systems of suspects to hacking, he was not resented, as well as the storage of license plate data and location data. In addition, would the minister have been found guilty of the ‘structurally ignoring concerns about privacy’, and he would all the Dutch people in advance as suspects treat.
