Edward Snowden's revelations: ten years later, "we are just as much or more monitored"

Félix Tréguer is a researcher at the Internet and Society Center at the CNRS, co-founder of the association for the defense of Internet freedoms and a specialist in digital surveillance.

LEFIGARO. - On the night of June 5 to 6, 2013, the British daily The Guardianpublished the first revelations of Edward Snowden. What happened then?

Felix TRÉGUER. - The very first revelations concerned metadata collected in the United States by the NSA from the telephone company Verizon. They were quickly followed by revelations about the PRISM surveillance program (an American electronic surveillance program, editor's note) and then about a program that, since the late 2000s, allows the NSA to establish partnerships with major technology companies on the exchange of data for surveillance purposes.

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