Interview with Caspar Bowden: Tracing the (Mis)steps to the PRISM Revelation

Is the PRISM revelation as surprising as the news coverage makes it seem? Independent privacy researcher and advocate Caspar Bowden previously predicted of PRISM-like surveillance systems in a 2012 Report to the European Parliament. Here, in an interview with LSE’s Alexandra Kulikova, the former Microsoft Chief Privacy Adviser reflects on how the mishandling of privacy by governments and media has disrupted public engagement with the privacy debate.