After three years of relative silence, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden spoke up: "[President Vladimir] Putin has signed a repressive new law that violates not only human rights, but common sense. Dark day for Russia." For the man who fled to Russia after blowing the lid off the NSA's unprecedented Internet surveillance program, it seemed to be too much to swallow.
The Moscow Times: What Russia’s new draconian data laws mean for users
NSA former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is seen via live video link from Russia on a computer screen during a parliamentary hearing on the subject of \"Improving the protection of whistleblowers\", on June 23, 2015.
