Contemporary · North America · Politics
2013
Snowden revelations
June 5, 2013
An NSA contractor named Edward Snowden, hiding in a Hong Kong hotel room, gave The Guardian and The Washington Post the largest leak of intelligence documents in history. The agency had been hoovering up the metadata of millions of Americans and the private conversations of foreign leaders alike. He fled to Russia. The internet's innocence formally ended.
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Also in 2013 (5 other events on record)
- Pope Francis elected · Europe · Religion
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- Boston Marathon bombing · North America · War
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Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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