{"id":47910,"date":"2023-10-20T15:56:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/a-message-to-tech-entrepreneurs-from-edward-snowden-we-can-build-something-better-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:56:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:56:33","slug":"a-message-to-tech-entrepreneurs-from-edward-snowden-we-can-build-something-better-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/a-message-to-tech-entrepreneurs-from-edward-snowden-we-can-build-something-better-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"A message to tech entrepreneurs from Edward Snowden: &#8220;We can build something better&#8221; &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb_video_wrapper\">                           <iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"td_youtube_player\" width=\"600\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8fd3BiqGeY?enablejsapi=1&#038;feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque&#038;vq=hd720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen name=\"td_youtube_player\"><\/iframe>                                                     <\/div>\n<p>In a climate of global instability, one of the world&#8217;s most renowned whistleblowers has put the onus on tech companies to step in when people&#8217;s basic human rights are not upheld by governments or the law.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Donald Trump added the United States presidency to his portfolio, Startpage.com&nbsp;hosted a live interview with Edward Snowden, who believes Trump&#8217;s election is a &#8220;dark moment&#8221; in US history.<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, he said that minorities and people who &#8220;don&#8217;t fit in&#8221; are the most vulnerable to having their privacy and basic rights removed.<\/p>\n<p>Where the law and governments fail to protect them, he said the onus is on people to support technology, corporations, groups and individuals who are working to enforce these.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a dark moment in our nation\u2019s history \u2013 but it is not the end of history and if we work together, we can build something better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden believes it&#8217;s &#8220;antisocial&#8221; to be passive&nbsp;about such issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you argue that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, that\u2019s no different than saying you don\u2019t care about free speech because you have nothing to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re never farther than an election away from a change in leader, from a change in policy, a change in the way the powers we have constructed into a system are used.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what we need to think about now is not how do we defend against a president Donald Trump, but how do we protect the rights of everyone, everywhere, without regard to jurisdictions, without regard to borders?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For tech entrepreneurs around the world, here are two key messages from Snowden.<\/p>\n<h3>Consider who you&nbsp;serve<\/h3>\n<p>Snowden says people should look to companies that see ordinary citizens as their \u201cprimary customer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As<em>&nbsp;TechCrunch&nbsp;<\/em>states: &#8220;In other words, not Facebook or Google&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With customer data at stake with the rise of cyber crime and government intervention, Snowden asked businesses to only store what\u2019s relevant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything you type into that Google prompt is being saved forever,\u201d Snowden says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMake sure you do not collect information, as a business, that you do not need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Encryption isn\u2019t enough<\/h3>\n<p>During the interview, Snowden said that while encryption can protect what you say during a phone call or send via online messaging, it isn\u2019t enough to hide the fact that the communication happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things on their own can be very dangerous,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetadata of your activities can often be collected even without the involvement of a court. This means you can create perfect records of private lives without ever reading what was actually said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to find a way to protect not only the content of communication, but to disguise the fact that the communication ever happened at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that this phone called this phone should be invisible to the vast majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes. &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a climate of global instability, one of the world&#8217;s most renowned whistleblowers has put the onus on tech companies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}