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Snowden gave real time, relevant and essential information to millions of Americans about how their RIGHT TO privacy and RIGHT TO BE FREE from unreasonable searches & seizures (of their data and also things, without court order/grant of warrant, or with prima facie unconstitutional FISA-kangaroo court warrants, with said FISA courts being nearly unchecked by process or oversight in their rubber stamp approval of warrants process), and how the government and 'private" tech, communications (e.g. AT&T) and data firms (Google, Facebook, Yahoo) were collaborating with and even jointly engaging in metadata bulk collection on hundreds of millions of innocent Americans, without reasonable, articuable suspicion of wrongdoing, let alone, by a higher probable cause standard necessary under the 4th Amendment.

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