This is the crux of the work on which I have been singularly focused for the last 16 months, the question of why privacy matters, a question that has arisen in the context of a global debate, enabled by the revelations of Edward Snowden that the United States and its partners, unbeknownst to the entire world, has converted the Internet, once heralded as an unprecedented tool of liberation and democratization, into an unprecedented zone of mass, indiscriminate surveillance.
这正是我在最近16个月内所专心研究的内容 为什么隐私这么重要 一个引起世界辩论的话题 它由爱德华·斯诺登的揭密而引起 他揭露美国和其同盟 瞒着整个世界 把互联网 这个曾经预示着民主和自由的前所未有的工具 转变成前所未有的用来肆意监视的空间