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 Snowden, who is in Russia, will answer questions via video
conference at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin
on Monday on how the U.S. National Security Agency uses technology
to keep tabs on people.
"Hear directly from Snowden about his beliefs on what the tech
community can and must do to secure the private data of the billions
of people who rely on the tools and services that we build," the
organizers said.
Snowden fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia, where he currently has
asylum. The White House wants him returned to the United States for
prosecution.
Last year, Snowden, who had been working at an NSA facility as an
employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, leaked a raft of secret documents
that revealed a vast U.S. government system to monitor phone and
internet data.
The leaks deeply embarrassed the Obama administration, which in
January banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends
and allies and began reining in the sweeping collection of
Americans' phone data in a series of limited reforms triggered by
Snowden's revelations.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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