Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist who's immersed herself in the world of hackers and digital activism. We wanted to talk more about this with two people who've been thinking about it. And he, like others, has a sparked a wide-ranging and intense debate about whether they are heroes or traitors or something somewhere in between. While Snowden's case seems particularly dramatic - he later emerged in a hotel room, and has since disappeared - he's only the latest in a series of so-called hacktivists, people who use their technical skills to expose activities of government or corporations with which they disagree. The fallout continues from the decision by former government contractor Edward Snowden to leak information about a secret government data mining program to the Washington Post and The Guardian. But first we want to follow up on the conversation many Americans have been having about technology and privacy. We'll find out what's behind this landmark settlement. Coming up, the British government has recently agreed to pay reparations to more than 5,000 Kenyans who faced torture and other severe abuse during the rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s.
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