Mere days ago, a man by the name of Mark Klein passed away – he was a telecommunications technician for AT&T for 22 years and risked it all just to open our eyes.
Mark Klein is not forgotten and will never be, at least in the minds of those who care deeply about privacy and illegal government spying:
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a nonprofit for civil liberties in the digital world, pays a tribute to Mark Klein and what he did years ago.
Mark Klein never set out to be a whistleblower, but his decision to expose a secretive government surveillance program made him a crucial figure in the fight for privacy rights. For more than two decades, he worked as a telecommunications technician at AT&T, most of that time in San Francisco. He was simply doing his job… until he realized he had unwittingly played a role in something far bigger and far more troubling.
In late 2005, the New York Times reported on the NSA's unauthorized surveillance within the US; it was exactly then that Klein connected the dots. He had seen firsthand how the program operated. Though newly retired by that time, he knew he had to act. Early in 2006, he approached the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) with a straightforward but significant question:
Do you folks care about privacy?
What Klein revealed reshaped the public's understanding of mass surveillance.
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