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Snowden takes a bow for whistleblowing after NSA pulls back surveillance
Edward Snowden felt a little bit of vindication Friday.
People said speaking up isn't worth the risk. Today, we can see they were wrong. Blow the whistle, change the worldhttps://t.co/GfwPn2ICYX
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 28, 2017
Before Friday, the NSA had a policy of sucking up texts and emails exchanged between Americans and people outside the U.S., with impunity, if those communications even mentioned non-American targets of NSA surveillance. The agency did not require a warrant to collect this information.
But the NSA announced Friday that it would no longer participate in this form of collection. Snowden counted that as a win for whistleblowing. Read more...
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