Hailed by some and condemned by others, Edward Snowden’s infamous story began with a mysterious email and a trove of classified secrets that would soon shock the world. Now, more than a decade later, ...

A nuanced look at Snowden’s disclosures, Chris Inglis’s perspective, metadata myths, and why future uses of surveillance powers still demand scrutiny.

Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old NSA contractor, came forward as the whistleblower who revealed the existence of secret government surveillance programs that collect data on millions of phone calls and ...

In 2013, a former intelligence contractor copied classified files exposing a global surveillance system spying on ordinary citizens. Edward Snowden revealed secret programs that collected phone ...