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Whistleblower Edward Snowden Analysis

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Whistleblower Edward Snowden has entered the debate over Australia's new metadata laws, saying Australia has joined other countries in undertaking mass surveillance of its citizens. He said: "Basically they use local authorities such as this metadata program that's been passed in Australia to collect everyone's communications in advance of criminal suspicion."(Hamish Fitzsimmons, 2015) While acknowledging that governments must take steps to protect people from terrorism, he said the sort of metadata collection programs being operated by governments were at odds with free Western society. "This is dangerous," he said, "What this means is they are watching everybody all the time. They're collecting information and they're just putting it in buckets
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