Pro-privacy titan Caspar Bowden dies after short cancer battle

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/09/caspar_bowden_dies_cancer_battle/

By Alexander J Martin
The Register
9 July 2015

Highly regarded independent privacy researcher Caspar Bowden has died 
after a short battle with cancer.

Bowden was a popular titan of privacy advocacy, and was one of Microsoft's 
leading privacy officers throughout his roles at the company between 2002 
and 2011.

While at Microsoft Bowden expressed concerns that the 2008 FISA Amendment 
Act allowed the NSA to conduct "unlimited surveillance".

He had left the company and gone public with his concerns for two years 
before the revelations made by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden – though 
he acknowledged he had "no idea" about PRISM.

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