Edward Snowden Mass Surveillance Report

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Analytical Report of Snowden and Mass surveillance
Introduction
After Edward Snowden’s disclosure of NSA top secret document of mass surveillance, it aroused the awareness of global residents about national security and personal privacy. This report will illustrate this global surveillance disclosure incident, analyse the cause and evaluate the potential consequence of this incident. Also, several ethical rules that the US government may violate will be provided.
Findings
The global surveillance scandal began with the disclosure of NSA confidential document by Edward Snowden. Since Edward Snowden claimed he cannot tolerate USA exploiting basic liberty and internet freedom of global citizen through mass surveillance scheme [1] and contacted The Guardian journalist and documentary maker. By the coverage of the exclusive that Guardian published on 5th June, series of NSA top secret mass surveillance related programmes were revealed. Snowden came to international attention and the United States and Federal prosecutors started charging Snowden with espionage [2]. Snowden then departed from Hong Kong and hoped to seek asylum from different countries under the United States government’s prosecutions. Eventually, Snowden was granted one-year temporary political refugee status from Russia and the United States was extremely disappointed …show more content…
Firstly, The United States reputation may be impaired after Snowden leaked the NSA top documents. According to Guardian journalist interview with Snowden [1], The United States government has already sneak into other countries’ internet without any permission and conducting silent monitoring which may be illegal. Some Countries condemned the United States spying, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff criticised the right of privacy and democracy of US [4] and China said the spying was nonsense [5]. it seems that the United States’ reputation may be besmirched among the
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