This month, 10 years ago, Edward Snowden changed the world.
His revelations about mass surveillance were a wake-up call and may have bought us years in our fight for privacy and encryption. 🔒
👉 https://tutanota.com/blog/snowden-leaks-nsa-surveillance-ten-years
Here are 3 illegal NSA programs that he exposed! 👇
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1. PRISM
A program under which the NSA collects internet communications from various US companies such as #Google #facebook #twitter under the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
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2. XKeyscore
A secret computer system used by the NSA for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore
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3. Boundless Informant
A big data analysis and data visualization tool used by the NSA. It gives NSA managers summaries of the NSA's worldwide data collections containing an immense amount of metadata.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant
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