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It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.
Edward Snowden
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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
Ed Snowden
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All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
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I'm not an anarchist. I'm not saying, Burn it to the ground.
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The charges [government] brought against me, for example, explicitly denied my ability to make a public-interest defense.
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Every time somebody on the internet sort of glances at us sideways, we launch an attack at them. That's not going to work out for us long term, and the U.S. have to get ahead of the problem if we're going to succeed.
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I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.
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It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.
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[Brazil] went to the UN and said, We need new standards for this. We need to take a look at what they're calling data sovereignty.
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