USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year

Posted by Unknown on Monday December 30, 2013 @01:10PM from the things-to-do-before-you're-thirty dept.

An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the USA Today tech column: "...But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange. For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."

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Re:If ever there was a "Conscience Award" ... by cold+fjord · 2013-12-30 18:01 · Score: -1, Flamebait

In Snowden's case it was a theft of IP that will benefit the "competition."

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