This was an incredible documentary. I was too young to grasp the whole Snowden thing when it happened so this was a great recap. But I have a question. This all happened, but what was the aftermath of these leaks? It seems people today have completely forgotten about this or don’t really care, so that domain kind of failed. And were there any consequences for the NSA, any legislative intervention, anything at all, or was it just <insert “we’re sorry” south park meme>. Do we have to assume nothing changed and the surveillance is still in place or probably even worse?
Some people became aware of the tracking. Some confused Snowden with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, and assumed he raped a woman and leaked classified data to the Internet. Snowden got trapped in Russia.
No policies changed. Things actually got worse, as you can see with Flock cameras as an example. No one even apologized.