Laura Poitras
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Laura Poitras is an American director and producer of documentary films.
Poitras at PopTech 2010 in Camden, Maine
Poitras introducing her film Citizenfour at the IFC Center in NYC on opening night
Edward Snowden
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Edward Joseph Snowden is an American and naturalized Russian citizen who was a computer contractor who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 when he was an employee and subcontractor who is currently under indictment for espionage. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments and prompted a cultural discussion about national security and individual privacy.
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 like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and YouTube
Hong Kong rally to support Snowden, June 15, 2013