Laura Poitras is one of the first American journalists to be contacted by Edward Snowden. His famous film “My country, my country“, which was set during the US war in Iraq and was nominated for an award, made her a target for security agencies.
“For six years, I was arrested and questioned every time I went to the United States. They made copies of all the notes I had in my notebooks.“Laura Poitras, Le Monde
In January 2013, in the midst of the storm, she received an email from Snowden.
At first, she was skeptical, then she became more and more curious as soon as she understood the issues of the information to which she had access. For security reasons, Laura changed her work habits and moved to Berlin. That’s when the whistleblower’s story took shape…
Reminder :
Edward Snowden is a former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) who revealed to the world, in June 2013, all the surveillance programs implemented by the United States and the United Kingdom.
Nowadays….
She has traveled the world promoting CitizenFour and giving her opinions on the world and society of surveillance.
“We have a lot of weapons, but we cannot use them for that… Yet governments want to make the Internet a military tool. There is a gap between technological possibilities and the way they are regulated. And that’s what every democracy should do: regulate. Snowden does not prohibit regulation. He is against mass surveillance.”
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