We have lost the well known and well respected privacy advocate Caspar Bowden to cancer. How very sad.
Caspar Bowden was one of those rare activists on privacy and pan-european data protection who knew… maybe not everything, but more than almost everybody else.
I met him a few times, even though I didn’t knew him personally. He was very important to our cause when I used to work for the Swedish Pirate Party in the European Parliament. He was there for you when you needed hard facts and the bigger picture.
To give you an image of Caspar Bowdens expertise, he predicted many of the NSA activities revealed by Edward Snowden years before these finally where exposed.
Now it’s up to us to carry on Caspar Bowdens work. We must do more, know more and dare more.
A few video clips:
Caspar Bowden forsees PRISM in October 2012 »
Caspar Bowden, NSA Hearing LIBE European Parliament, 24 Sept. 2013 »
Caspar Bowden on Cloud Computing and Surveillance (FISA) »
The Guardian:
Outspoken privacy campaigner Caspar Bowden dies after battle with cancer »
Wall Street Journal » | Techcrunch » | The Register »
Caspar Bowden will be sadly missed. And kept in light memory.
Update: According to his family, Caspar Bowdens funeral will be podcasted.
/ HAX
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