Snowden says US mass surveillance making people across globe less safe

U.S. intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has said the mass surveillance programme used by the United States to tap into phone and internet connections around the world is making people less safe.

In short video clips posted by the WikiLeaks website, Snowden said that the NSA's mass surveillance 'puts people at risk of coming into conflict with our own government'.

According to news24, Snowden described the surveillance as a 'dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under sort of an eye that sees everything even when it's not needed'.

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