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Edward Snowden And The NSA Spying Program

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In the document “Hero or Traitor? Edward Snowden and the NSA Spying Program”, Edward Snowden, exposed various types of spying programs. He exposed these programs because they were invading the people’s privacy and he felt that it was important for the people to know.
On June 5, 2013, the very first report, a newspaper from London called The Guardian, reported that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) was collecting telephone records from millions of U.S. customers of telecommunications company Verizon. Journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed a top secret stating that The U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) required Verizon to hand over information on telephone calls both between the U.S. and other countries.
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