[Josy]

We watched CITIZENFOUR on C4 last night and even though I knew about him and had read up about it all before, I had never watched the movie, I'm just wondering what others think of the information Ed Snowden revealed?

After Laura Poitras received encrypted emails from someone with information on the government's massive covert-surveillance programs, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet the sender, who turned out to be Edward Snowden

What is your opinions on the fact that the government are gleaning tons of info about us from everything we do, including phone data, online searches and purchases, bank info, were we go to, who we visit and so on..

My personal opinion is that it goes wayyy beyond security for the country like threats against terrorists for example which would make it totally acceptable of course if they had reason to investigate people, but where is the line? most of us are not criminals, terrorists etc, it's a complete invasion of privacy and no I don't have anything to hide from anyone but surely this means people that that are not involved in any wrong doings or suspected of being a threat to the country should have the basic right to be left alone?

Opinions?

Edit - I forgot to add, this isn't a debate about whether Ed Snowden was right or wrong to do what he did, I want to know what people think of the information he leaked, which often gets overlooked due to the 'He is a traitor, No he isn't' arguments.