Caspar Bowden obituary

Anti-surveillance campaigner and former Microsoft privacy chief who warned of online state snooping many years before Edward SnowdenCaspar Bowden, who has died of cancer aged 53, warned of online state snooping many years before Edward Snowden, and ran a successful campaign to stop surveillance laws becoming even worse than they are. He entered the fray in 1997, when Tony Blair went back on a pre-election promise not to demand government access to cryptographic keys. At a Scrambling for Safety c