““But to portray the NSA and its partner services, as Greenwald does, as akin to East Germany's Stasi, or to the KGB, and claiming that they have the 'literal' goal to 'eliminate privacy globally'42 is an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary evidence. So far, nothing of the kind has been forthcoming. As Snowden's 'Christmas message' broadcast on Britain's Channel Four television stated: A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves: an unrecorded, unanalysed thought. And that's a problem because privacy matters, privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be.43 But this is a huge exaggeration. What the Snowden documents do appear to show””
![“A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States. But that's not his goal. [His] objective is to expose software that people around the world use without knowing what they are exposing…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cba/glenn-greenwald-1215_around-the-world_a-snowden-has-enough-information-to-caus_1776965.jpg)
![“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as "What is the most significant story that you have revealed?" […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories have revealed, and that is–and I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole or melodrama…” quote by Glenn Greenwald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb7/glenn-greenwald-1215_american-politics_every-time-i-do-an-interview-people-ask_2405639.jpg)
![“The most striking thing Snowden has revealed is the depth of what the NSA and the Five Eyes countries [Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the US] are doing, their hunger for all data, for total bulk dragnet surveillance where they try to collect all communications and do it all…” quote by Laura Poitras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/500/laura-poitras-22687_australia_the-most-striking-thing-snowden-has-reve_1780388.jpg)
![“The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.” quote by Michael Morell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6d2/michael-morell-26084_cybersecurity_the-edward-snowden-disclosures-created-t_402053.jpg)
