Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American privacy activist, computer professional, former CIA employee, and former government contractor who leaked classified information from the United States National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments. (wikipedia, n.d.)
Edward Snowden was working as a technical contractor at NSA, he made into headlines for reveling information on warrantless mass surveillance programs that were conducted by US and British government.
To beat a hacker, you should be a person who thinks like a hacker” and “To master hacking, you should need to …show more content…
Snowden mentioned, “I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building." (Yan, 2013).
The reason of Snowden’s leaks are important to me as it explains why so many Americans suffer from their activities, but when it comes to whether National security or Privacy rights it is always national security from the government point of view which depends on the situation in which the whole nations is facing.
The NSA was collecting all the details like phone numbers and email id’s of each and every individual to keep track of them irrespective of whether the individual has performed the crime or not. On May 7, 2015, federal court ruled out NSA’s collection of millions of phone numbers and records violating Patriot Act as they were authorized to collect the information relevant to counter terrorism and not to fool people and blackmail them on their day to day
Edward Snowden was working as a technical contractor at NSA, he made into headlines for reveling information on warrantless mass surveillance programs that were conducted by US and British government.
To beat a hacker, you should be a person who thinks like a hacker” and “To master hacking, you should need to …show more content…
Snowden mentioned, “I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building." (Yan, 2013).
The reason of Snowden’s leaks are important to me as it explains why so many Americans suffer from their activities, but when it comes to whether National security or Privacy rights it is always national security from the government point of view which depends on the situation in which the whole nations is facing.
The NSA was collecting all the details like phone numbers and email id’s of each and every individual to keep track of them irrespective of whether the individual has performed the crime or not. On May 7, 2015, federal court ruled out NSA’s collection of millions of phone numbers and records violating Patriot Act as they were authorized to collect the information relevant to counter terrorism and not to fool people and blackmail them on their day to day