A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.

I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

I acted on my belief that the NSA's mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts. Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans' rights. It is the first of many.

The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.