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What Edward Snowden has done is to force a long repressed debate about how much liberty, if any, we need to sacrifice in order to protect our security. Before his leaks, that urgent conversation was a non-debate because the violations of liberty were being done entirely in secret, beyond the reach of democratic deliberation.

This web site talks about an article posted in the NY Times regarding the internet era and how a judge ordered web sites disclosing confidential information to be shut down. They encourage people to post leaked information on Wikileaks.org in order to stop unethical behavior.

Edward Snowden basically started the Privacy vs Security debate as we know it today. He was responsible for leaking vast treasure-troves of data about the NSA's data collection programs that were designed to gather and anilize the data of almost every single American citizen. This article details exactly what we learned from his leaks.

There have been pushes to ban encrypted services online in order to try and prevent terrorists from secretly using such services to communicate. This article discusses three major points that we need to consider when discussing this issue; terrorists aren't using things like PS4's to communicate, despite what the rumors claim. When we apply back-doors to our encrypted services, we weaken them to attack. We need to think about this as Privacy vs security, not security vs security.

Earlier this year, Edward J. Snowden, a government contractor, leaked classified documents to the news media that revealed the existence of top-secret government surveillance programs. We now know that the National Security Agency gathers phone logs and Internet data from millions of Americans as part of its mission to keep the United States safe.

Edward Snowden was a former NSA worker who gathered information from millions of people through mass surveillance, He leaked information about why the government does certain things to "protect" American lives. The interview also goes further to explain how to help protect your privacy and some other insightful information.

The Edward Snowden leak case, which exposed some of the practical elements of NSA surveillance operations unknown to many Americans, has also revealed just how divided the nation remains over whether the government should be permitted to intrude on privacy to safeguard national security.

We either pay for privacy like with ITunes or deal with the information leaks. The problem most people have is that there was no way of knowing what exactly was being shared about you.