"Twelve years ago today, Edward Snowden — a longtime Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) board member — blew the whistle to journalists on global mass surveillance programs, changing the way we think about the relationship between privacy and national security.
The 2013 revelations take on added urgency as the Trump administration reportedly attempts to circumvent existing privacy guardrails to build a “master database” containing the most sensitive information the government holds on any given individual.
Such a database, combined with the government’s sprawling surveillance authorities, would grant the administration an unprecedented view into our private lives and provide it more opportunities to crack down on dissent.
It’s all the more reason to revisit what abuses the Snowden disclosures helped us mitigate, and which still urgently need fixing.
Here are some of the top impacts the disclosures had. Since it’s the 12th anniversary, we’ll list 12 of them."
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