While there is a legitimate debate around an individual company’s responsibility to keep customer data secure,it is easy to gloss over the more fundamental issue:what are they doing with it in the first place?
The former contractor with the US National Security Agency has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US.
Beijing and Washington have been engaged in increasingly testy claims of cyberspying.
Among those hacked by Israeli-based spyware were the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi,and journalists from AP,Reuters,CNN,The Wall Street Journal,Le Monde and The Financial Times.
Geoffrey Robertson,QC,has called on Australia to ask US President Donald Trump to pardon the Wikileaks founder.
Snowden,who has kept a low profile in Russia,said last year that he was willing to return to the US if he's guaranteed a free trial.
The teams for John Bolton and President Donald Trump are facing off in the US District Court in Washington,adding the former national security adviser to a long list of authors who have clashed with the White House over publishing sensitive material.
Anna Wiener quit her job as an assistant at a literary agency to head to the heart of the tech in San Francisco.
Snowden is liable for breach of contract with the government because he published the book without submitting it for a pre-publication review,the judge ruled.
The Justice Department is not attempting to limit the book's distribution but is asking a judge to allow the government to collect all the proceeds from book.