Do you Know who is Edward Snowden?

Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old defense contractor who leaked classified documents on U.S. government surveillance programs called the "Prism". A Stealthy monitoring system installed by the U.S Government to mine all information by wiretapping. The Prism Program has access to nine big Companies data at hand including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft.


He's a high school dropout who worked out his way to the most secretive machines in as a defense contractor and identify himself as the source of leaks about US surveillance programs - PRISM. He is responsible for making material public from one of the world's most secretive organization the NSA(National Security Agency). A man with $200,000 salary have a big home at Hawaii, living a decent life chose this way to reveal what he saw at the NSA.

He added saying that, he had the authority to do anything with that program, he can track any one,wiretap any citizen , federal judge or even the president if he has a personal Email id. This is one of the biggest Leak in the entire history of the US. After the Collateral damage Video leaked to Wikileaks by a US Soldier Bradley Manning, this is the second time US has come under a Leak Scanner.

Snowden, an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton a private company who takes contracts from the US Government for the past three months, he moved to a Hong Kong hotel on May 20, after accessing a bunch of classified information from a government office in Hawaii with the intention to reveal information on the controversial classified program to the public. He is now in asylum, but not feared of being prosecuted and Jailed by the US.

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