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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA | World news | The Observer

The psychological effects of surveillance--why privacy matters.



Berlin’s digital exiles: where tech activists go to escape the NSA | World news | The Observer: It’s the not knowing that’s the hardest thing, Laura Poitras tells me. “Not knowing whether I’m in a private place or not.” Not knowing if someone’s watching or not. Though she’s under surveillance, she knows that. It makes working as a journalist “hard but not impossible”. It’s on a personal level that it’s harder to process. “I try not to let it get inside my head, but… I still am not sure that my home is private. And if I really want to make sure I’m having a private conversation or something, I’ll go outside.”

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