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These activities can be misconstrued, misinterpreted, and used to harm you as an individual even without the government having any intent to do you wrong.

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Edward Snowden
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 21
Computer Scientist
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Whistleblower
Elizabeth City
North Carolina
Edward Joseph Snowden
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Internet exchanges and internet service providers - international fiber optic landing points - these are the key tools that governments go after in order to enable their programs of mass surveillance. If they want to be able to watch the entire population of a country instead of a single individual, you have to go after those bulk interchanges.
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The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.
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The question is: Particularly in the post-9/11 era, are societies becoming more liberal or more authoritarian?
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And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.
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We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.
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The courts were afraid to challenge executive declarations of what would happen. Now, over the last year, we have seen - in almost every single court that has had this sort of national-security case - that they have become markedly more skeptical.
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US administration does not want me to return. People forget how I ended up in Russia. They waited until I departed Hong Kong to cancel my passport in order to trap me in Russia, because it's the most effective attack they have against me, given the political climate in the United States.
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Ever since I've been here [in Russia], my life has been consumed with work that's actually fulfilling and satisfying.
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One of the kind of unexpectedly liberating things of becoming this global fugitive is the fact that you don't worry so much about tomorrow. You think more about today. And unexpectedly, I like that very much.
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The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.
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Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.
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We decentralise the ability to decide the level of publicity that's attached to any of our communications.
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It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
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We have to be able to ask questions in order to answer them.
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I know that fundamentally, changes to the fabric of the internet, and sort of our methods of communication, can enforce our rights.
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The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.
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I'm not a spy, which is the real question
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These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.
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It is interesting that so many people who become disenchanted, who protest against their own organizations, are people who contributed something to them and then saw how it was misused.
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I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.
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