Product, Range and Distribution: The NSA Have Your Nude Pics

I had one idea for a poster range called '...The NSA knows'. It would consist of a range of, perhaps embarrassing, statements which the NSA would know. I have already got a list of what the NSA have access to and what they can actually do HERE. This will help to provide the statements. 

Below is a collection of news articles and summaries relating to this topic:

John Oliver and Edward Snowden explain how the NSA collects pics of our junk
http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/john-oliver-edward-snowden-nsa-interview/

John Oliver Interviewed Edward Snowdon in Russia about the NSA. The article was really interesting and has definitely reinforced the idea of 'The NSA knows...' campaign. He tells Snowdon that not many Americans know who he is or what he did, he said that if they had heard of him they thought he was 'the wiki leaks guy'. One thing he said that American people are outraged at is the thought that the NSA have their d--k pics.

The story was published on the 6.04.15 which was earlier this month, this shows that this news story is still relevant which is reassuring for my campaign.



Edward Snowden Says NSA Workers Pass Around Your Nude Photos

http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-guardian-interview-on-naked-photos-2014-7

Another news story from last year explaining the situation. You’ve got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old, they’ve suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. If they see an attractive picture of a naked girl, they show their colleagues who then say "oh show John" and it goes on and on....

The article had a sentence which I really like and would like to use in the poster range as an explanation: The fact that your private records, your private lives, records of your intimate moments have been taken from your private communication stream, from your intended recipient, by the government without any specific need, is a violation of your rights.

Racy Photos Were Often Shared at N.S.A., Snowden Says

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/us/politics/edward-snowden-at-nsa-sexually-explicit-photos-often-shared.html

Another interesting story really showing a clear problem and invasion of privacy. I didn't realise that the British government often pioneered the most invasive surveillance programs because its intelligence services operate with fewer restrictions intended to protect individual privacy compared to its counterparts in the United States and other allies.

After reading these stories I want to persue 'The NSA knows" idea as a range of posters. Although this is a minor part of all the wring they are doing, it is the thing that is most likely to get people talking and thinking. A lot of people don't care about the NSA watching and perhaps don't even think it affects them. However by approaching it from this angle people will care because it is about them and a complete violation of the privacy rights. If someone took a naked photo, it puts them in a vulnerable position even if they just sent it to their partner. The sudden idea that other people have seen it and passed it round could be quite shocking and begin to make people think that its not right. 

Although all of this came out in July last year, an interview with John Oliver at the beginning of this month shows that it is still an issue that people seem to know very little about.