In early June, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the first hints of a pervasive government surveillance program. Depending on who you talked to, the NSA could either collect emails with debatable oversight or literally watch people type. Congress and the president denied that the revelations were shocking — in fact, they said, they’d known about them all along.
Story here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4487328/rats-in-a-cage-gaming-and-the-police-state
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