#DontSpyOnUs Day of Action
The Don't Spy On Us campaign Day of Action was held on 7th June 2014 at Shoreditch Town Hall in London. The event was at full capacity, and attendees posted hundreds of tweets during the plenary sessions, seminars and crypto-parties. Here is a large but fascinating selection.
- The event began with a video message from Stephen Fry.
- Stop spying on us - @stephenfry urges governments to step back from the "brink of totalitarianism." http://ow.ly/xJJBQ #dontspyonus
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— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:43:10 - Stephen Fry denounces UK government for not acting on Snowden revelations http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/stephen-fry-denounces-uk-government-edward-snowden-nsa-revelations … #DontSpyOnUs #summit
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— David Gow (@WiselinePRT)Sat, Jun 07 2014 15:33:40 - The opening speech was from author and activist Cory Doctorow.
'Computers accompany us everywhere.' Ominous opening of #dontspyonus by @doctorow pic.twitter.com/2skw3sow4U//twitter.com/Nikwilliams2/status/475263143351169025
— Nik Williams (@Nikwilliams2)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:08:57- How do we amplify parts of the #Internet that make us free and dampen the ones that threaten #Privacy, asks @doctorow #DontSpyonUs
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— PrivacyInternational (@privacyint)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:09:11
Activist @doctorow tells #DontSpyOnUs there has been a ballooning interest in encryption tools since #Snowden pic.twitter.com/vFU0xq2A4Y//twitter.com/KevinJRawlinson/status/475263309735022592
— Kevin Rawlinson (@KevinJRawlinson)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:09:37- 'Increasingly putting our bodies in computers'. Nice line @doctorow #dontspyonus
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— Andrew McStay (@digi_ad)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:09:37 - "Nerds understand how dangerous computers can be" @doctorow #DontSpyOnUs
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— alan rusbridger (@arusbridger)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:10:53 - .@doctorow tells #DontSpyOnUs that once people start warehousing data. It's a short step to abusing the power it gives you
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— Ali Goldsworthy (@aligoldsworthy)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:12:12 - Global network of laws keep us locked in to using programs that hurt our #privacy, enable #surveillance says @doctorow #DontSpyOnUs
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— PrivacyInternational (@privacyint)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:12:36 - “For nerds, the most shocking Snowden revelation … was the scale of sabotage done in the name of spying.” —@doctorow #DontSpyOnUs
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— Cole Peters (@cole_peters)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:13:43 - .@doctorow says your digital life is being made vulnerable to "every crook" in the world #DontSpyOnUs
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— Kevin Rawlinson (@KevinJRawlinson)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:14:07 
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— lea kaspar (@leakaspar)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:19:05- "The Internet has the power to make governments accountable to their people" @doctorow #dontspyonus
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— F-Secure UK (@fsecureukteam)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:19:35 - @doctorow -make voting like Kickstarter- if we all vote for this minority candidate we can get him in #DontSpyOnUs
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— Sarah Elliott (@SarahElliott02)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:19:45 - .@doctorow’s opening talk is wonderfully incisive. Can’t type fast enough to record all the dead-on points. #DontSpyOnUs
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— Cole Peters (@cole_peters)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:19:46 - .@doctorow: 'spying is cheap, if it were expensive, it would force govts to only spy on those they had a damn good reason to'. #DontSpyOnUs
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— Kevin Rawlinson (@KevinJRawlinson)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:20:09 - Our job is to see that technical and legal improvements make it harder for govts to spy on us says @doctorow #DontSpyOnUs
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— PrivacyInternational (@privacyint)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:20:34 - #DontSpyOnUs A free, fair & open internet is how we are going to make a free, fair & open world @doctorow
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— Sarah Clarke (@Sarah_M_Clarke)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:20:35 - Cory Doctorow, opening speech, Don't Spy On Us Day of Action, Shoreditch, June 7, London http://www.mixcloud.com/TCotton/cory-doctorow/ … #dontspyonus
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— var = DivisiveCotton (@andywalpole)Sun, Jun 08 2014 05:18:03 - Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger 'In Conversation' with Donmar Artistic Director, Josie Rourke

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— Luke Curtis (@ilukecurtis)Sat, Jun 07 2014 14:46:06- .@arusbridger decision to hire unconventional journalist Glenn Greenwald led to 'frenetic' week with spy in HK hotel room #DontSpyOnUs
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— Julia Rampen (@JuliaRampen)Sat, Jun 07 2014 13:25:52

















