Born in 1983 in elizabeth city, north carolina, he attended a community college and later enrolled in a master's programme at the university of liverpool without finishing it. Edward snowden stole hundreds of thousands of highly classified secrets and handed them to journalists while holed up in a hong kong hotel room. With that simple message, sent in december 2012 from former nsa contractor edward snowden to guardian reporter glenn greenwald, the biggest leak of government secrets in history was set in motion. A breakdown of the informative leaks provided by the former cia employee, edward snowden, who spent time working with the nsa and shared highly classified information. As one of the most. Intelligence contractor edward snowden stunned the world by revealing government officials were surveilling private citizens across the globe
A decade later, has anything changed about government surveillance?
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