Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.

I don't speak Arabic - I know a little to get by, but that's all.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all sorts of different ways. Their ethos is "collect it all."

In all my work, I'm interested in trying to understand the human consequences of government policies.

It's not everyday that a whistleblower is actually willing to be identified.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.