National Security Agency 2013

In 2013, Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked thousands of classified documents revealing how the government was spying on ordinary citizens worldwide. What he uncovered: 🔷 PRISM The NSA had direct access to servers of giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo. They monitored your messages, video calls, cloud photos, emails, and files. Without you knowing. Without a court order. 🔷 XKEYSCORE The “Google” of surveillance. It allows agents to search for anything you’ve done online: websites you visited words you typed emails sent documents downloaded even what you wrote but never sent “With XKeyscore, I can spy on anyone, just by having their email.” – Snowden 🔷 TEMPORA (United Kingdom) Intercepts all data traffic crossing fiber optic cables. Imagine you’re sending a message from home: TEMPORA clones it before it reaches its destination. It’s used for global surveillance, sharing data with the NSA. 🔷 UPSTREAM & BOUNDLESS INFORMANT Collect billions of records of calls, emails, movements. BOUNDLESS INFORMANT even shows a real-time world map displaying how much data is collected per country. 📲 METADATA: The Gold of Digital Spying It’s not what you say, but who, when, and how much. The NSA collected data from millions of Verizon users and other phone companies. They didn’t listen to your calls. But they knew who you talked to, for how long, and from where. 🤐 Spying on Allies The NSA spied on international leaders like Angela Merkel (Germany) and Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), as well as diplomats from the UN and the EU. Friends or surveillance targets? 🚨 And Snowden? He was charged with espionage and theft of government property. He has lived in exile in Russia since 2013. He says he doesn’t seek to destroy governments, but to awaken consciences.