Thomas Drake: The Golden Age of Surveillance — Reflections on Society, Technocracy and our Humanity

Thomas Drake is a former senior executive with the National Security Agency, a United
States Air Force and Navy veteran, computer software expert, and whistleblower. While at
NSA, he blew the whistle on multi-billion fraud, intelligence failures, wrongdoing and a secret
dragnet electronic surveillance and data mining program conducted on a vast scale by the
NSA after 9/11. This program violated and subverted the Constitution as well as individual
sovereignty and privacy, while weakening national security and fundamentally eroding civil
liberties. In April 2010 he was charged by the US Department of Justice with a 10 felony
count Espionage Act indictment facing 35 years in prison, until the government's case against
him collapsed in June 2011. He is the 2011 recipient of the Ridenhour Prize for Truth Telling.

Online Lecture, Wednesday,  13. November 2024, 11 AM

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