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Know more about Edward Snowden controversy

New Delhi: Edward Snowden who is giving a slip to USA was born to an officer of US Coast Guard on June 21, 1983. He pursued his computing career but left mid way. Then he worked







On June 17: During the G-20 London summit the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British Intelligence agency taped the communications of foriegn politicians' reported by The Guardian.

On June 20: Publishing of two signed secret documents of Attornet General Eric Holder (NSA) which describes the rule on which the targets of investigations whether foriegn or Domestic is set.

On June 21: The Guardian disclosed an 18-month-old British operation by GCHQ which

intercept and store mass quantities of fiber-optic traffic known as 'Tempora'.

On June 23: The South China Morning Post reported about the hacking of Chinese Mobile-phone companies to fetch millions of SMS's, Tsinghua University in Beijing and also the Asian fiber-optic network operator Pacnet. Snowden provided documents to the newspaper that included listed details of specific episodes during a four year period.

On June 25: Snowden had sent NSA secrets files to associates as insurance for his safety, so that if something happen to him they would be made public as reported by Greenwald.

On June 29: Snowden provided documents which stated that NSA had planted bugs in European Unions offices in Washington, New York and Brussels and hacked their computer networks, as reported by Der Spielgel.


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