On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the #Snowden revelations, I remember Caspar #Bowden, who predicted this based on publicly available sources, lost his job at #Microsoft as a result, wrote a study for the European Parliament on the whole NSA scandal within 3 months, and unfortunately died way too early in 2015. https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6195_-_en_-_saal_g_-_201412272145_-_the_cloud_conspiracy_2008-2014_-_caspar_bowden Rule of thumb for any privacy activist: "What would Caspar have said or done?"
The Cloud Conspiracy 2008-2014
In 2011 I started trying to warn EU institutions about what we now call PRISM, after working it out from open sources. Civil society, pri...media.ccc.de