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Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013 without authorization. His disclosures revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.

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Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

Effectively, Mean, Nsa, Observation, Under

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

Firsts, Government Spying, Leader, Leaders, Leadership, Looking

Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.

Sacrifice, Surveillance State, Talking, Willing, Decide, Understands

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Able, Governed, Long, Nsa, Say

I talk to people in the ACLU office in New York all the time. I'm able to participate in the debate and to campaign for reform. I'm just the first to come forward in the manner that I did and succeed.

Aclu, Manner, New York, Office, People, Reform

We're opening the doors to people launching missiles and dropping bombs by taking the human out of the decision chain for deciding how we should respond to these threats. And this is something we're seeing more and more happening in the traditional means as our methods of warfare become increasingly automated and roboticized such as through drone warfare.

Bombs, Doors, Drone, Increasingly, Mean, People

If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.

Acting, Belief, Beliefs, Probably, Real

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

Aware, Government, Governments, Issues, Losing, Power

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

China, Freedom, Hong, People, Republic, Strong

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

Earth, Internet, Lose, United, United States

If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

Country, Foreign, Insecurity, Leaving, Risk, Use

When people are talking about cyber weapons, digital weapons, what they really mean is a malicious program that's used for a military purpose. A cyber weapon could be something as simple as an old virus from 1995 that just happens to still be effective if you use it for that purpose.

Mean, Military, Program, Simple

I wonder if it's conservative or liberal [ inalienable rights idea], because when we think of liberal thought, when we think about the relation to liberty, we're talking about traditional conservatism - as opposed to today's conservatism, which no longer represents those views.

Conservatism, Liberty, Longer, Rights, Thinking, Views

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

State, States, Voice

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

Fighting, Government, Opportunities, Opportunity, United

Americans hack everyone everywhere. We like to make a distinction between us and the others. But we are in almost every country in the world. We are not at war with these countries.

Countries, Country, Hack, War, World

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

Agency, Care, Change, Government, Sacrifice

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Function, Liberty, Privacy

My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done.

Clearly, Demonstrates, Independent, Real, Taken

The way the United States intelligence community operates is it doesn't limit itself to the protection of the homeland. It doesn't limit itself to countering terrorist threats, countering nuclear proliferation. It's also used for economic espionage, for political spying to gain some knowledge of what other countries are doing.

Community, Country, Economic, Espionage, Nuclear, Political

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