The Snowden Leaks, Explained: How One Whistleblower Rewrote Privacy, Surveillance, and Cybersecurity
What if the internet you use every day—your emails, calls, searches—were moving through a surveillance system far bigger than you imagined? In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked a trove of classified documents about the NSA and its partners. Overnight, the world got a crash course in how modern surveillance actually works. And the debate hasn’t stopped…