Ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has delivered a UK Christmas message, stressing an end to mass surveillance.
Mr Snowden focused on privacy, saying: “A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all.”
He said: “They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalysed thought.
“The conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it.
“Together we can find a better balance, end mass surveillance and remind the government that if it really wants to know how we feel, asking is always cheaper than spying.”
The 30-year-old has temporary asylum in Russia after leaking details of US electronic surveillance programmes.
