By Sikander Hashmi, Special to The Gazette
EDISON, N.J. – As I write this piece, I know editors at this newspaper will read it before it goes to print. But is anyone else going to gain access to it before it’s made public? Big Brother perhaps?
That’s quite possible. Information leaked by Edward Snowden, the American who previously worked for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and most recently as a contractor for the National Security Agency, indicates that emails, photos, chats, social-media sites and practically all Internet activity have been monitored by the NSA since 2007. Officials have sought to reassure Americans that the authorities are only focusing on foreigners, which includes Canadians like myself. Even if I weren’t physically in the United States, authorities could legally read through this article the moment I composed the email to the editor — even before I hit send, because I’m using the email service of a U.S. company.
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