President Barack Obama expresses the view that a balance is needed between combatting terrorism and civil liberties and hence he supports the NSA’s practices. While as a candidate he offered the hope of a change in how government operates, U.S. Senate hearing in March 2013 whether the NSA collected “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans,” James Clapper, Jr., the director of national intelligence flatly replied, “No, sir.” government agencies, such as the NSA and the FBI, to monitor electronic communications and collect digital data.Īsked at a U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) that hears, in secret, requests from U.S. Congress has established a court under the U.S. Interviewed by the Guardian, Snowden speaks openly about the reasons for his disclosure and his fears both of reprisal and that nothing will change. Such surveillance includes both digital data available from commercial companies, such as Google, Facebook and Verizon, and data surreptitiously decrypted from online cables and other carriers.
National Security Agency (NSA), goes public in June 2013 with classified documents evidencing massive surveillance by the NSA. Snowden, a 30-year old employee of a private contractor for the U.S. Silva, the computer hacker and threat to MI6, has his equivalent in Edward Snowden.
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