Snowden celebrates the world's rejection of surveillance two years after NSA leaks

Two years after the revelation that the National Security Agency was spying on millions of innocent citizens, Edward Snowden has declared that the "balance of power is beginning to shift." Writing in The New York Times, Snowden claims that a "post-terror generation" is emerging that refuses to justify the practice of mass surveillance out of fear. "For the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001, we see the outline of a politics that turns away from reaction and fear in favor of resil...