Edward Snowden lambasts Cameron for sudden privacy u-turn
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The OP downplays it, the Cameron family fortunes derive from a major tax avoidance scheme for the wealthy.
Ian Cameron's Blairmore Holdings partnered with Panama's Mossack Fonesca for 30 years - to legally hide monies for the wealthy.
His family, allegedly, may still run / profit from this major tax avoidance scheme for the wealthy - now based in Ireland, home of the 'Dutch Irish Sandwich' tax avoidance scheme Cameron attacked Google & Facebook for using. *
It is not impossible that Cameron may yet inherit it, ( he has declared inheriting £300,000 from his fathers estate ) yet lambasts others for tax avoidance.
He has so far refused to answer questions about 'family business'.
He is planning legislation to curtail tax avoidance - which is legal.
Potentially a conflict of interest.
The Panama leaks suggest that the Blairmore board may have met in the UK which would make this illegal tax evasion. *
* http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/04/panama-papers-da...
Meanwhile George Osbourne, UK chancellor of the exchequer, (who taxes the nation) refuses to answer whether he has benefitied from offshore tax avoidance - terminating interviews.
But when it's their privacy and when they get exposed for something or find out they were spied upon - oh boy, they suddenly turn into privacy activists.
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/30/spying-on-congress-and-i...
I think this applies to everyone. Even those who think that for themselves privacy is not such a big deal. But in reality, they just didn't really think it through. And when some sensitive data about their private lives gets exposed, they also suddenly realize how much they do care about it.
I urge you to read that article. It's very insightful.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/edward-snowden-noam-chom...