Disclosure: I hate "Click-Bait" ... especially videos.
I saw "Edward Snowden" (interesting person) ... then refused to click on the link.

[Hey Grok] below is the result of "news search" that I got, with my "prompt" at bottom.

Edward Snowden has not put out ten distinct public observations in the past eight months. What is new is a September 2026 panel and a June 2026 Russian state-TV appearance. Clickbait clips titled “Snowden emergency warning” recycle older talks. Nothing in this window is a Russia-gate argument about an intelligence-community war on the executive branch. The list below is his actual recent statements, dated, with older ones marked so the window is clear.

Inside the past eight months

1. State work is being handed to private surveillance firms, and accountability disappears with it. On 24 September 2026 he spoke by video from Russia to a packed ETHics Forum at ETH Zurich on “AI Surveillance and Freedom of Speech.” He said more government functions are being outsourced to companies such as Palantir, so responsibility blurs. He did not discuss Russia’s political system. Source: the Zurich panel, reported by Blick.

2. AI companies cannot blame the model. At the same event he said firms shift blame for errors onto an “autonomous” system. Algorithms are neither guilty nor innocent. “The responsibility lies always with the people who develop and deploy these systems,” and he called for legal consequences for those people.

3. The new surveillance model is track everyone, then identify. In a June 2026 segment on Russian state channel Rossiya-1, used in an FSB report about Western infrastructure, he said the old model was “identify the target, then track them.” The new one is “track first, then identify,” so almost any information about any person can be pulled without a crime or a suspicion. He said even top-secret documents described collecting all possible information and wiretapping everyone.

4. Most internet traffic is still naked, and the phone makers were PRISM partners. In that same June 2026 appearance he said the largest telecom companies move messages unencrypted, so from the network’s point of view the communication is naked. He also said people still do not grasp that Microsoft, Apple, and Google were partners in PRISM.

Before that, mostly mid-2025, because eight months does not fill ten

5. Video interpretation has flipped. At SuperAI Singapore, 18 June 2025 (“Freedom in the Age of Intelligent Machines”), he said that in 2013 it took about an hour to analyze a minute of video. Current models can interpret about 30 hours of video in one hour of processing, on the chip, in store cameras, malls, and hospital waiting rooms, with no human in the loop.

6. A private whisper becomes a public utterance. At the same talk he said that once this is productized, “public utterance” expands to what you whisper to your wife in an empty elevator, because the security camera can see you and a voice model can flag phrases. Off-the-shelf cameras, he said, already do attribute detection and cross-camera tracking.

7. Device “emissions” identify you without reading content. Also at SuperAI: packet flows across routers, stockpiled for years, are “a big, beautiful turkey” for training. The order in which you open websites in the morning can uniquely identify you, along with habits and where you go.

8. Algorithms become the gate, and you cannot argue with them. He asked whether a model will decide a mortgage or a dating match, and whether harmless non-normative behavior will be penalized for deviating from the norm. His line for that was “How do you argue with a turnstile?” He said people need separate public and private personas - pseudonyms, separate browsers and accounts - not to hide, but to remain whole. The stated risk is a future with no “freedom from the system.”

9. Do not trust OpenAI. In May 2025, after a U.S. court order that OpenAI preserve ChatGPT output logs even when users delete them, he wrote that the company had “torn off the mask” and that people should never trust OpenAI or its products, calling it a calculated betrayal of rights. Secondary write-ups treat the chats as more invasive than PRISM because users volunteer thoughts rather than having metadata collected. An earlier warning, after a former NSA chief joined OpenAI’s board, was the same theme: do not trust them.

10. Arresting a platform founder is taking hostages. This one is older than eight months, from August 2024, but it is the last clear civil-liberties statement that still circulates. On Pavel Durov’s arrest in France he wrote that it was an attack on freedom of expression and assembly, and that he was surprised Macron had gone so far as to “take hostages.” He has also, separately, criticized Telegram’s own encryption, so the Durov defense is about the arrest, not an endorsement of the app.

The topics he is actually on are AI-scale surveillance, corporate capture of state functions, and encryption. Russia-gate and an intelligence-community war on the presidency do not appear in his public record from this period.

[My Prompt] Someone said that Edward Snowden is back in the news for his observations on current events. I expect that most likely topics would be National Security, or Russia-Gate as an Intelligence Community War on the Executive Branch of US Governance, or Artificial Intelligence relationship with Global Economics. From the past 8 months, what are the Top 10 Viewpoints or Observations from Edward Snowden (taken from video, articles, or posts on the Internet)? Go back farther in time if 8 months does not provide 10 stories on Ed Snowden views.