Snowden
A former contractor employee of the U.S. National Security Agency who, in 2013, disclosed classified information about the NSA's large-scale surveillance program known as PRISM. The revelations prompted widespread global debate regarding government surveillance and the right to privacy.
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Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 showed that the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm may have been backdoored by the NSA: as long as one possesses a certain secret constant, one can reverse-derive the internal state from a given output and thereby predict subsequent random numbers.
The PRISM program revealed by Snowden in 2013 demonstrated that the Patriot Act was used in practice to conduct indiscriminate collection of communications from millions of ordinary citizens.
After Edward Snowden's exposure of the PRISM program in 2013, Wikipedia page views for multiple privacy-sensitive terms in the United States showed a quantifiable decline
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Documents leaked by Snowden in 2013 showed that the Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm may have been backdoored by the NSA: as long as one possesses a certain secret constant, one can reverse-derive the internal state from a given output and thereby predict subsequent random numbers.
50%UnverifiedThe PRISM program revealed by Snowden in 2013 demonstrated that the Patriot Act was used in practice to conduct indiscriminate collection of communications from millions of ordinary citizens.
50%UnverifiedAfter Edward Snowden's exposure of the PRISM program in 2013, Wikipedia page views for multiple privacy-sensitive terms in the United States showed a quantifiable decline
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