When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable … - Edward Snowden

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You look different. You look unsettling. ’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.

Edward Snowden

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed. "

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