Snowden spy leaks shook the world, a decade later, what’s changed?

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Snowden spy leaks shook the world, a decade later, what’s changed?​

In 2013, a 29-year-old US government intelligence employee came to Hong Kong to secretly meet with journalists. Edward Snowden leaked tens of thousands of top-secret documents showing that his employer, the National Security Agency (NSA), was illegally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had not been suspected of any wrongdoing. Becoming one of the world’s most polarising whistle-blowers, Snowden revealed that the US was spying on countries and leaders, worked together with big tech to gain access to user’s private data, and was collaborating with national security agencies of Australia, Canada and the UK in its mass surveillance. What were the repercussions of the Snowden leaks, and what other major disclosures have taken place since that have exposed a system of illegal mass surveillance and privacy breaches in the digital age?