Why did Snowden run to Hong Kong after the incident?

He chose to go to Hong Kong to reveal secrets to the media because Hong Kong is a place that can accept him in the cultural and legal framework and will not lead to his immediate arrest.

Snowden is a CIA employee and is also in charge of a secret project of the National Security Agency. This project is that the United States is monitoring its own citizens, including all daily communications and internet access, all under the monitoring of the US government. Moreover, this secret plan also involves many famous American companies, such as Apple, Google and Yahoo facebook, which we all know, all participated in this monitoring plan.

Now Snowden, as the technical director of this project, has actively exposed this top secret plan to the media, that is, exposed all the most confidential things of the US government, and then Snowden now runs to Hong Kong for temporary asylum. After arriving in Hongkong, Snowden revealed many secrets to the media, saying that the US government has been attacking other countries' networks for several years, and also invaded China's networks to steal all kinds of information.

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Project Prism is a top secret electronic monitoring project implemented by the National Security Agency in 2007. The official name of the project is "US-984XN".

According to reports, the leaked documents describe the ability of the "Prism" project to deeply monitor instant messaging and existing data. The allowed monitoring targets include any customers outside the United States who use the services of participating companies, or any American citizens who communicate with overseas people.

The data obtained by the National Security Agency through Project Prism includes emails, video and voice conversations, movies, photos, VoIP conversations, file transfers, login notifications and details of social networks. The President's DailyBriefing is a comprehensive intelligence document, which uses the data of 20 12 "Prism Project" 1477 projects.

According to Snowden's documents, the National Security Agency has access to a large number of personal chat records, stored data, voice communication, file transfer and personal social network data. The government confirmed that it had asked Verizon, an American company, to provide millions of private phone records, including the length of the call, the location of the call and the phone numbers of both parties.

Shortly before the Prism project report was released, the US government continued to secretly ask Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with the daily telephone records of all its customers. These top secret documents were leaked by edward snowden, a contractor employee of the National Security Agency.

He used to work in the office of the National Security Agency in Hawaii, but moved to Hong Kong in May 20 13, and copied these documents and made them public.

According to Washington post, the "Prism" project started in 2007. Senator Feinstein confirmed that the National Security Agency's telephone records database is at least seven years old. This plan, which costs $20 million a year, has attracted much attention since Obama took office. In 20 12, the president cited the project data 1477 times in his daily briefing, and at least one seventh of the reports of the National Security Agency used the project data.

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China News Network-Snowden accepts questions and answers from netizens around the world, explaining why he chose to go to Hong Kong.