Global surveillance and journalism
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Global surveillance and journalism is a subject covering journalism or reporting of governmental espionage, which gained worldwide attention after the Global surveillance disclosures of 2013 that resulted from Edward Snowden's leaks. Since 2013, many leaks have emerged from different government departments in the US, which confirm that the National Security Agency (NSA) spied on US citizens and foreign enemies alike. Journalists were attacked for publishing the leaks and were regarded in the same light as the whistleblowers who gave them the information. Subsequently, the US government made arrests, raising concerns about the freedom of the press.
- Edward Snowden was an officer with the NSA until 2013 when he copied several US government secret files and absconded with it. He later released these files to journalists. These files showed how the US government spied on both its citizens and on other governments
- Julian Paul Assange of Wikileaks also released several classified information provided by US Army Intelligence Analyst, Chelsea Manning.
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A whistleblower is someone, particularly an insider or employee of a company, who brings to light wrongdoing by an employer, a government, or a law-enforcement agency, and who is commonly vested by statute with rights and remedies against retaliation.[1]