<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Ali you have framed good questions as a jumping-off point for further discussion. This is an area that is growing in relevance and should be discussed thoroughly.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4">I think surveillance is good but the authorities must be transparent enough about the data they take from us otherwise everyone will continue taking extensive precautions to protect their identity. </font><br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4">Now since government is the one responsible for protecting our rights offline, we should challenge them to protect the same rights (freedom of expression and privacy) online in equal measure. After all,</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font color="#073763" face="garamond, serif" size="4">No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's conset - Abraham Lincoln</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Ali Hussein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" target="_blank">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Listers</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">What is the connection between Big Data, Government Surveillance and Advertising? </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Increasingly privacy issues online are becoming a sore point. Where do you draw the line between privacy, civil liberties and 'National Security'? </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">These issues must be debated openly and candidly. Do I mind if the government accesses my most intimate DMs on Twitter in the interest of National Security? </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Especially if you have a name like mine? </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>The recent Prism Scandal in the US where a CIA whistleblower has revealed that the Government of the US is increasingly snooping on all and sundry through telephone conversations, social media etc is raising the ante on this issue.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/prism-a-watershed-moment-privacy-legislation/242010/?utm_source=mediaworks&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage&ttl=1371493909" target="_blank">http://adage.com/article/privacy-and-regulation/prism-a-watershed-moment-privacy-legislation/242010/?utm_source=mediaworks&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=adage&ttl=1371493909</a></span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Where do we stand in Africa in general and Kenya in particular? </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Sometime last year the former PS of Information made an impassioned case for a certain level </span></div>
<div><span>of surveillance because of our proximity and involvement in the 'War on Terror'.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>What is your take? <br></span><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:medium">Ali Hussein</span></div>
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