Snowden will make first major appearance since U.S. lawsuit at conference next month

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Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 2, 2019 / 9:50 AM / UPDATED 9 MINUTES AGO

Snowden will make first major appearance since U.S. lawsuit at conference next month

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden will speak next month by video at Web Summit in Lisbon, billed by the organizers as the world’s largest annual tech conference.

Organizers of Web Summit said it would be Snowden’s largest live audience to date and his first before a major audience since the release last month of his memoir.

The conference said Snowden would take questions from a moderator onstage about his work for the NSA, from which he leaked a vast trove of classified secrets in 2013, resetting the world’s view of tech-enabled spying.

Web Summit said it welcomed talks by security and privacy experts.

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1. Fu_k that cowardly defector. The current whistle blower followed the guidelines...

showed how it's done, is being protected and is poised to testify—no absconding like a thief in the night who was until Obama was elected.