{"id":34809,"date":"2018-06-06T12:04:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34809"},"modified":"2018-06-06T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T17:04:33","slug":"edward-snowden-the-people-are-still-powerless-but-now-theyre-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34809","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden: ‘The people are still powerless, but now they’re aware’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Edward Snowden: ‘The people are still powerless, but now they’re aware’<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Five years after historic NSA leaks, whistleblower tells the Guardian he has no regrets<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Edward Snowden remains in exile in Russia. Photograph: Lindsay Mills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n
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Edward Snowden<\/a> has no regrets five years on from leaking the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history. He is wanted by the US. He is in exile in Russia. But he is satisfied with the way his revelations of mass surveillance have rocked governments, intelligence agencies and major internet companies.<\/p>\n

In a phone interview to mark the anniversary of the day the Guardian broke the story<\/a>, he recalled the day his world \u2013 and that of many others around the globe \u2013 changed for good. He went to sleep in his Hong Kong hotel room and when he woke, the news that the National Security Agency had been vacuuming up the phone data of millions of Americans had been live for several hours.<\/p>\n

Snowden knew at that moment his old life was over. \u201cIt was scary but it was liberating,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a sense of finality. There was no going back.\u201d<\/p>\n

What has happened in the five years since? He is one of the most famous fugitives in the world, the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary<\/a>, a Hollywood movie<\/a>, and at least a dozen books. The US and UK governments, on the basis of his revelations, have faced court challenges to surveillance laws. New legislation has been passed in both countries. The internet companies, responding to a public backlash over privacy, have made encryption commonplace.<\/p>\n

Snowden, weighing up the changes, said some privacy campaigners had expressed disappointment with how things have developed, but he did not share it. \u201cPeople say nothing has changed: that there is still mass surveillance. That is not how you measure change. Look back before 2013 and look at what has happened since. Everything changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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