In year 2013, Snowden released a large number of classified documents that shows how British and US intelligence agencies had powerful tools to carry out surveillance on a mass scale online.
He's since continued his campaign against government spying and the tech liable companies that provided ‘back-door’ access to their customers' data.
His recent target is Apple, according to Snowden's lawyer, who revealed that iPhone software can be remotely activated without the user's knowledge.
"Edward never uses an iPhone, he’s got a simple phone," stated Anatoly Kucherena to Russian media company RIA Novosti.
"The iPhone has special software that can activate itself without the owner having to press a button and gather information about him, that's why on security grounds he refused to have this phone."
That's certainly the first we've heard of this 'iFeature'.
Apple has always been outspoken about the importance of user privacy and doesn't harvest people's data to make its money, so it would be bizarre if Snowden's allegations turned out to be true.
CEO Tim Cook mentioned in an open latter published in September 2014 that Apple takes a "very different view" than some other major tech companies - which we can take to mean Facebook and Google.
"We don't build a profile based on your email content or Web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don't 'monetize' the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don't read your email or your messages to get information to market to you,” he said.
The company also said that with the launch of the updated mobile operating system iOS 8 it was impossible for Apple to decrypt messages on phones - even if it wanted to.
The question is whether Snowden knows something we don't. He still has access to a load of files from the NSA. What do you think, could this be true?
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