A decade after Edward Snowden informed the world about the shocking scale of state surveillance and spying citizens are subjected to, one of the persons involved in helping him in the early moments of his plight, a former Google employee, is speaking out.
In keeping with the overall theme of the Snowden story, ex-Googler William Fitzgerald, in 2013 based in Hong Kong, describes the events that unfolded as Snowden became identified as the whistleblower behind the revelations, but also the way the tech industry has changed in the meanwhile – and how in the last ten years, Google has increasingly rejected free speech.
