NSA whistleblower says Moscow’s online monitoring of citizens is unnecessary,costly and corrosive of rights
The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has attacked his Russian protectors by criticising the Kremlin’s human rights record and suggesting its officials have been involved in hacking US security networks.
In an interview in the Financial Times with Alan Rusbridger, the former editor of the Guardian, and which first published the whistleblower’s revelations on mass surveillance,Snowden said Moscow had “gone very far, in ways that are totally unnecessary, and costly and corrosive to individual and collective rights” in monitoring citizens online. Related: Snowden review: Oliver Stone turns trusty thrills into dated Hollywood fodder Related: Snowden review: Oliver Stone turns trusty thrills into dated Hollywood fodder Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com