How the Edward Snowden's Security Crisis case affected the International Relations field?

Abstract

The project´s main focus is to highlight the legal and diplomatic actions entailed to the Edward Snowden case; computer systems analyst and former secret intelligent agent of the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States of America. In relation to this, his name rose to prominence after releasing classified confidential documents from the agency to journalists from The Guardian and Washington Post newspapers. In those articles, Edward Snowden provided information about how the organization conducted operations through the use of mass surveillance, which included phone calls, emails, online chats, and personal information of American and foreign citizens.