Edward Snowden Is No Hero

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Some people have called Edward Snowden a hero, others believe he is a criminal. The NSA terminated him “for violations of the firm’s code of ethics and firm policy.” His revelation of the existence of NSA troves of metadata on the phone calls of Americans raised concerns about the protection of privacy. From the article in New Yorker “Edward Snowden Is No Hero”, it was published that he was “Instead, in an act that speaks more to his ego than his conscience, he threw the secrets he knew up in the air-and trusted, somehow, that good would come of it.” This amplifies to the American society of the ethical issue of the conflict of two legitimate values, privacy versus security. If people decide to completely give up their privacy in order to