Edward Snowden
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Edward Joseph Snowden is a former United States National Security Agency intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
Snowden in 2013
Slide from an NSA presentation on "Google Cloud Exploitation" from its MUSCULAR program; the sketch shows where the "Public Internet" meets the internal "Google Cloud" where user data resides.
PRISM: a clandestine surveillance program under which the NSA collects user data from companies including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013
The global surveillance disclosure released to media by Edward Snowden has caused tension in the bilateral relations of the United States with several of its allies and economic partners as well as in
"Stop Watching US" rally in Washington DC, October 26, 2013
The banner of The Day We Fight Back, February 11, 2014
A view from the rooftop terrace of the Reichstag building in Berlin, the seat of the German parliament. In the background, behind the Brandenburg Gate, the United States Embassy can be seen. The grey structure on the embassy's roof (top right corner of the photograph) is thought to contain surveillance equipment, possibly used to tap into mobile phones.
Demonstration of the Pirate Party of Germany against PRISM in Berlin, Germany, 2013