Can This Dysfunctional Life Coach Make You Care About Privacy Rights?

Karen is an app that shows you the downsides of blindly trusting apps (instead of telling you about it).

Though the controversy over government surveillance has been raging since Edward Snowden's NSA leaks were first revealed in 2013, there's a pervasive feeling that the American people don't care about, or don't understand, these hard won revelations. Last Sunday on the HBO news parody show Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver and his crew ventured out onto the streets of New York, asking people whether they'd heard of whistleblower Edward Snowden and if they believed the government could be monitoring their communication illegally. Most people both hadn't heard of Snowden and didn't believe the government program he'd exposed could be real . Oliver then asked the same people how they would feel if they knew the government could see their naked photos. No one wanted the government to see their dick pics, and though most didn't believe it was happening, even the idea deeply concerned them.

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