And it's Effect on Foreign Nations
The Snowden Effect
Something can’t be a problem unless people are aware of it. That’s the state the United States was in regarding surveillance for years since the patriot act and the events of 2001. However, a state of ignorant bliss can’t last forever and the glass was shattered in 2010 when Edward Snowden stole over a million government documents and disclosed the contents en masse to the world. These included XKeyscore, PRISM, Turbulence, STELLARWIND and many more and each one specialized in one specific type of intrusion of citizen’s privacy. The world was shocked, and out of nowhere, governments were scrambling to protect themselves, their data and their people’s privacy, corporations were trying to save face after their participation was revealed and the people were left wondering where their data was and who had it. This sudden shift to awareness and activism has been deemed the “Snowden Effect.”
Comfort Inn, Warrenton Virginia. Snowden's dormitory during his 6-month stint at the Warrenton Training Center aka "The Hill." Where He trained to be a CIA "Technical Informations Security Officer" (Snowden 139).
"Technology doesn't have a Hippocratic Oath"
-Edward Snowden
Government Lies and the Snowden Effect-Global Impacts
While the majority of the Snowden leaks were centered on the United States, many foreign nations were impacted, directly or indirectly, by the revelations.
Norway
Although never explicitly mentioned in Snowden's leaks, this unseeming country was hit just as hard as the rest.
