Snowden

Edward Snowden 's 2013 disclosures fundamentally altered the global conversation on digital privacy and state power. As an intelligence contractor, he leaked classified documents revealing that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its allies were conducting mass surveillance on a scale previously unimaginable to the general public. The Disclosures

This term refers to the wide-ranging cultural and legal shifts that followed his revelations: Snowden

: The gathering of millions of domestic phone records, identifying who people called and for how long. Edward Snowden 's 2013 disclosures fundamentally altered the

: Hacking efforts targeting foreign telecommunications, including millions of private text messages in China . The "Snowden Effect" Snowden