Corporations can’t be trusted to stand-up to government
 

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said that open source was vital because big corporations can’t be trusted to stand up to the government.

Snowden told the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2016 conference that free software enabled him to disclose the US government’s far-reaching surveillance projects.

What happened in 2013 couldn’t have happened without free softwareparticularly citing projects like Tor, Tails (a highly secure Linux distribution) and Debian, he said.

Free software’s transparency and openness are cornerstones to preserving user privacy in the connected age. He said that not all commercial products are bad, nor that all corporations are evil just that citizens should not have to rely on them to uphold the right to privacy.

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