In the information age, it’s ironic that the government is becoming more secretive than ever, with an increase in classified documents and a growing reluctance to engage in any sort of transparency.
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Americans around my age and younger have never really known a world without the Patriot Act's influence.
Governments are willing and able to use technology to track our movements, invade our privacy, and even enforce the law.
It's been five years since Edward Snowden revealed that our government was engaging in widespread mass surveillance on U.S. citizens. What have we learned?
It has been three years since Edward Snowden exposed the National Security Agency for engaging in bulk surveillance on American citizens, and since that time the debate over privacy, data security, encryption and espionage has continued to rage fiercely.