Do you think email and online banking are private?

The Garda Commissioner’s use of her private email account has highlighted the issue of cyber security. Acclaimed author and investigative journalist Luke Harding tells Joyce Fegan why he certainly does not consider email to be private messaging.

Do you think email and online banking are private?

Guardian journalist and author of the Snowden Files, Luke Harding, spent four years in Moscow as a bureau chief for The Guardian, where he was heavily surveilled and later deported.

He does not consider email as private messaging and also chooses not to bank online.

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