Edward Snowden publicly revealed the existence of PRISM through a series of classified documents leaked to journalists of The Washington Post and The Guardian while he was an NSA contractor at the time, thus fleeing to Hong Kong.

Jul 31, 2024 · In 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked classified details of the PRISM program. He believed that the surveillance was destroying “privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for...

Jul 17, 2013 · Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old intelligence contractor formerly employed by the NSA, CIA, and Booz Allen Hamilton, confessed responsibility for leaking the PRISM documents.

Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American-Russian former NSA intelligence contractor and whistleblower [4] who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. He became a naturalized Russian citizen in 2022.

Jun 10, 2013 · Edward Joseph Snowden, 29, is the whistleblower who leaked top secret slides relating to the Prism programme operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007.

Sep 3, 2020 · Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans' telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was...

Nov 21, 2024 · Former CIA consultant Edward Snowden leaked documents that described the PRISM program, a coordinated effort by U.S. intelligence to add backdoors for data gathering into popular communication systems.

Jun 24, 2013 · Edward Snowden is the name of a 29-year-old technical assistant for the Central Intelligence Agency who disclosed the largest surveillance program implemented by the US known as the PRISM program. For better or for worse, his name is destined to enter into history.

Jun 10, 2013 · Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who pulled back the curtain on the United States' internet surveillance programme Prism, has been hailed as a hero by some , and labelled a traitor by...

Jun 10, 2013 · Ed Snowden explains why he became a whistleblower (Video courtesy of The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras) A former CIA technical worker has been identified by the UK's Guardian...