'They wanted me gone': Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia

The man whose state surveillance revelations rocked the world speaks exclusively to the Guardian about his new life and concerns for the future. The world’s most famous whistleblower, Edward Snowden, says he has detected a softening in public hostility towards him in the US over his disclosure of top-secret documents that revealed the extent of the global surveillance programmes run by American and British spy agencies.
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