Snowden said he released documents on a program called PRISM to show the public the extent of the illegality. The bulk interception of Americans’ data broke US law, but the NSA still intercepts foreigners’ data globally. Called STELLARWIND, its goal was to collect, analyse, and store all digital data from around the world. Snowden says in his memoir, Permanent Record, that he was motivated by the NSA’s decision to build the most extensive global mass surveillance system ever devised. He subsequently copied huge amounts of highly sensitive information, which he took with him when he left the NSA in 2013, aged twenty-nine, to become the most important whistleblower in intelligence agency history. His bosses readily agreed to let him build and run a comprehensive backup system. After realising that the vast electronic surveillance organisation often failed to backup its advanced computerised systems properly, Snowden offered a solution. Edward Snowden was a model employee of the National Security Agency.
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