June 9,
2013. At first glance, it would seem as just another date talking of nothing, simply
a thin leaf torn from a thick calendar directory. The same world with the same
ordinary routine, people hurrying hither and thither, hustling, pushing each
other in crowded buses, others tediously waiting to advance for another scanty
distance in traffic jams. If photographers all around the world were to capture
the life of their cities that morning, there would be the same picture with the
scenery taken as a constant and only faces varying. However, all population of
the planet got united under an unprecedented unique news, having flown around
the globe in a couple of minutes right after someone, having introduced himself
as Mr. Edward Snowden, announced that “The Big Brother” in the face of the
United States accompanied by the United Kingdom watch nearly every step of
every civilian an almost every state via the Internet and mobile phones, the
two things all use. Impossible! All the basic legal rights are sent to hell by
2 governments positioning themselves as the most democratic of all times and nations?
Of course,
today each of us is aware of who Edward Snowden is. An American computer specialist, a former
Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former National Security Agency
contractor who disclosed top secret NSA documents to several media outlets,
initiating the NSA leaks, which reveal operational details of a global
surveillance apparatus run by the NSA. A
series of exposés beginning June 5, 2013 revealed Internet surveillance
programs such as PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora, as well as the interception of
US and European telephone metadata. What does this mean? Listen further: Facebook,
Twitter, Google Maps and … attention, please… Angry Birds app steal your
personal data and go to one source. Nowadays we know this thanks to one man. How
do you think, what if one day this information is stolen by terrorists? What the
world risks? Why today this man is constantly threatened by death and forced to
search for asylums? Maybe all he’s said is the truth which hurts the plans of
certain people. ..And now it’s your turn to decide who Edward Snowden is: аn
odious bluffer, an international superhero or a masterly performing actor hired
by an ill-wisher?
