Tag: Edward Snowden
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Putin grants Russian citizenship to Edward Snowden, who disclosed top secret US surveillance
Edward Snowden, a former security expert who exposed top-secret American surveillance programmes and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges, was granted citizenship by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. In order to avoid punishment, Snowden, who considers himself a whistleblower, left the United States and has been residing in Russia since that country…
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‘Smartphones are worse than a spy in your pockets’: Edward Snowden
Ex-computer intelligence consultant at the United States (US) National Security Agency (NSA) Edward Snowden has said that smartphones are “worse than a spy in your pockets”, reports Geo News. Snowden urged governments to impose a global delay on the international spyware trade or face a world in which no mobile phone is safe from state-sponsored…