Snowden Pros And Cons

In 2013, June 6th, an article published on both The Guardian and The Washington Post shocked whole world. The article disclosures that U. S government has secretly collecting phone records and data of millions of Verizon customers daily.
Edward Joseph Snowden is a former government contractor, former CIA employee. He is a computer professional was hired by Booz Allen Hamilton, an NSA contractor. In early June of 2013 he left his job at an NSA facility in Hawaii and flew to Hong kong and revealed thousands of classified NSA documents to journalists named Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Ewen MacAskill. The documents leaked a great number of global surveillance programs. Many of them are run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation

Four of them was published in the news articles. The slides confirmed that numerous technology companies participated in the PRISM program. For instance, Microsoft in 2007, Yahoo! in 2008, Google in 2009, Facebook in 2009, Paltalk in 2009, YouTube in 2010, AOL in 2011, Skype in 2011 and Apple in 2012. In The Washington Post’s article, it said “98 percent of PRISM production is based on Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft; we need to make sure we don’t harm these sources,” the briefing’s author wrote in his speaker’s notes.
On July 2nd. 2014, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) released a quite detailed report about the description of the PRISM program and NSA's collection efforts under Section 702 FAA.
According to this report, PRISM only collect internet communications, not telephone conversations. These internet communications are not collected in large numbers, but in a targeted way. Only communications that from or to specific selectors. The report mentioned that under PRISM there's no collection based on keywords or names.
In Snowden’s slides. It shows there are two types of collection. One is Upstream(another surveillance program codenamed), another one is PRISM. “Upstream” installed spectroscopes on the cable of internet backbone in case to copy the data. The slides describe “Upstream” as "collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows

He exposed that U.S Government and its partner, convert the Internet to an arbitrary spying space. The interest used to symbolize freedom and democracy. Now it’s just a tool to violate people’s privacy. Mine privacy and your privacy. Some may say those surveillance program is the reason we haven't had another major attack. Now my question is does sovereignty above human rights? There’s a group of people has an opinion that there’s no real big harm in this surveillance activity because only people who tend to do bad things have the reason wants to hide their secrets and care about their privacy. In a 2009 interview the CEO of GOOGLE, Eric Schmidt said “If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.” It’s interesting that those people who said privacy isn’t really important. They don’t actually believe it. They do everything they can to protect their privacy. In 2010, CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckberger pronounced that privacy is no longer a "social norm." However, in 2013 he and his wife purchased not only their house but also all four adjacent houses in order to ensure that they have their private