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What Is The Full Interview With NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden

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The video is all about the full interview of John Stossel with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who leaked the top-secret documents that revealed the mass surveillance of NSA program in which they secretly collect private data from Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and so on.
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As time passes by, our lives become easier because of technology advancement. If we examine so many people use mobile phones, laptops, different social media platforms and so on. This is mainly used by many people in communication, work, business, learning and entertainment, in general in daily life of people but some of us or most of us didn’t know that by using it, this has affiliated return and it is getting personal information …show more content…

According to NSA pursuant to EO 12333 they are authorized to collect, retains, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and department missions, and to support for the conduct of military. In other word NSA collects communications and information of people outside and inside the country of US. But according to Edward Snowden who is the world’s famous whistleblower of NSA and the one who used to work in CIA and NSA as a contractor before he revealed the top secret of American spy agencies and other allies that the legal process that we expected and we had become accustomed to what constitution being told was a lie and all the process, regulations and procedures that they do in reality what NSA is doing is violating not only the law as written but likely the constitution. Snowden is concerned to the people and other governments help by big internet companies are moving towards collecting all information, making a permanent record of people and recording the whole daily lives. Everything that you are doing online was capturing by this spy agencies stealing privacy of people and Snowden believe that we …show more content…

The main character is Edward Snowden who is NSA whistleblower that reveals the top-secret documents that contains mass surveillance programs run by American and British spy agencies. His full name was Edward Joseph Snowden born in Elizabeth City North Carolina in US and now live in exile. He works on CIA as a contractor and spend years working in cybersecurity on projects for the US National Security Agency (NSA) before Snowden leaks with revelations about the NSA storing the phone records of millions of Americans, and agency’s claim its prism programme had direct access to the data held by Apple, Facebook, Google and other US internet. The reason why did he do it is because of his realization, all experience and everything he sees become wider and wider and he come up with a realization that this agency’s are being abusive and they do the wrong thing that is why he decides to tell the wrong doing of spy agencies in public even though he will be exile and it risk his life. After he reveal the truth the opponent which is US security agency and other allies they try to file espionage charges against him and try to detained him and ordered to destroy the computer of Snowden that is being use for his documents that is why he leave America and remains living in

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