english: 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.
non_english: To je glavna tema dela, s katerim se intenzivno ukvarjam zadnjih 16 mesecev — vprašanje o pomenu zasebnosti, ki zdaj nastopa tudi v kontekstu svetovnih razprav, zahvaljujoč razkritjem Edwarda Snowdena, da so ZDA in njeni partnerji brez vednosti ostalega sveta spremenili internet iz orodja brez primere, ki je nekoč obetalo osvoboditev in demokratizacijo, v cono masovnega, nekritičnega nadzora, kot ga še ni bilo.