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Blockbuster revelations from National Security Agency (NSA) leaker Edward Snowden began publishing nine years ago this week, exposing the breadth of U.S. digital spying programs and fundamentally altering the public’s understanding of technology, privacy and digital security.

The Snowden revelations, published first in The Washington Post and the Guardian, focused comparatively narrowly on spying conducted by the U.S. government. But they helped usher in an era when people began to feel less safe on their digital devices for a whole host of reasons — ranging from government surveillance to criminal hackers to privacy invasions by tech companies.

• “It was a catalyst for a set of things that have left a permanent imprint on the role of privacy in our policy discourse, on attitudes about the extent to which people trust the U.S. government and the NSA in particular,” Bobby Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin who focuses on national security issues, told me.

The revelations marked a turning point when the darker side of the internet and digital technology began to play a far broader role in American life.

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