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Snowden to Make UK Public Appearance Via Video Link From Moscow: Reports

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The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is expected to make a public appearance in a UK event this Sunday, speaking via video link from Moscow, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

MOSCOW, October 9 (RIA Novosti) - The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is expected to make a public appearance in a UK event this Sunday, speaking via video link from Moscow, The Guardian reported on Thursday.

"I'm tired of people endlessly rehashing the history of Mr Snowden's revelations, and I'm sure he is too," the Observer technology columnist John Naughton, who will lead the discussion with Snowden, was quoted as saying.

According to the Guardian, Snowden will answer questions posed by Naughton, as a part of The Observer Ideas festival, being held at London's Barbican Theater on October 12.

"We need to figure out how (and whether) societies can reassert effective democratic control over our security agencies; whether the technology that has enabled comprehensive surveillance can be re-engineered to protect privacy," Naughton said, regarding the issues he hopes to discuss with Snowden.

The newspaper stresses that it will be the first Snowden's UK public appearance in over a year, since the Guardian first published his revelations about mass surveillance and the NSA.

Starting in June 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) about extensive electronic surveillance programs conducted by the US government around the globe, including eavesdropping on American citizens and foreign leaders.

The US has charged Snowden with espionage and revoked his passport. The whistleblower received temporary asylum in Russia for one year on August 1, 2013. In August 2014, the Russian authorities extended the temporary asylum for Snowden for three years.

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