Question: How do you project surveillance affecting the digital future? 

I think surveillance is one of the most important civil liberty issues of this generation.  As digital spaces consume every aspect of our lives, the distinction between “real life” and internet lessens, and our personal and private information becomes part of the Internet and by extension, becomes part of corporate and governmental matters.  I think judging on the way we have treated whistle blowers like Snowden, governmental-secret curators like Assange, and corporations like Facebook and Google who profit off private information, it is fair to understand how individuals and corporations are treated very differently when it comes to discovering secret information. Unless we prioritize a shift of knowledge and rights around the Patriot Act, I think many people, in the Untied States and affected by U.S. policy will find that they are unfairly targeted because of the use of digital spaces to profit off of supposedly private information.