The documentary Citizenfour, which debuted to a limited release on Friday, offers the closest look yet at Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who exposed the National Security Agency spying scandal. In the film, Snowden and the journalists he works with go to great lengths to shield their correspondence from unwanted eyes.
Though Laura Poitras' film explores a very extreme circumstance — a massive leak of top-secret information to the press — it's as good a reminder as any that we live in a time of widespread government surveillance, and you can't be sure who's intruding on or monitoring your Internet activity and communications. Read more...
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