The Revelations of Edward Snowden

by MARJORIE COHN

“Big Brother is Watching You,” George Orwell wrote in his disturbing book 1984. But, as Mikko Hypponen points out, Orwell “was an optimist.” Orwell never could have imagined that the National Security Agency (NSA) would amass metadata on billions of our phone calls and 200 million of our text messages every day. Orwell could not have foreseen that our government would read the content of our emails, file transfers, and live chats from the social media we use.http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/03/the-revelations-of-edward-snowden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-revelations-of-edward-snowden&utm_reader=feedly

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