DSCN0367 Message from Edward Snowden to FSM 50 rally, UC Berkeley
Free Speech Movement 50th anniversary rally in Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley. Message from Edward Snowden was read to the crowd.

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FSM 50th Rally - Snowden #39;s Message - Oct 1, 2014
Jack Radey reads Edward Snowden #39;s message to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Read at Rally, Oct. 1, 2014 Video taken by Susan Druding with Sony DCS-TX20.

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Data Privacy in the post-Edward Snowden Era: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edward Snowden #39;s public revelations of U.S. government surveillance efforts have triggered a vigorous societal debate about the balance between liberty and security in the 21st century. Scholars...

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Edward Snowden, who leaked thousands of top secret documents including information about two U.S. monitoring programs, is among the nominees for this years Nobel Peace Prize.

Snowden is on the run from the U.S. authorities after he disclosed information about top secret U.S. programs that monitor phone and internet outlets.

He was granted a Russian visa which was recently extended.

Snowden was charged last year with a number of federal offenses including communicating classified intelligence.

President Obama said he is no patriot and there were other ways he could have voiced his concerns about the NSA.

No I dont think Mr. Snowden is a patriot. As I said in my opening remarks, I called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before Mr. Snowden made these leaks. My preference, and I think the American peoples preference, would have been for a lawful orderly examination of these laws, said President Obama.

MORE: I was trained as a spy, Snowden bolsters credentials during exclusive NBC interview

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Bloomberg Oct 4, 2014, 04.22AM IST

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A Japanese group seeking to preserve pacifism in the Asian nation's constitution and Pope Francis, who has made the fight against poverty a focus of his tenure, are among the top contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Other favourites include Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, Edward Snowden, the former American intelligence contractor who revealed secret surveillance programmes, Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who defied the Taliban, and Russian media outlets such as Novaya Gazeta, according to bookmakers and researchers. The winner will be announced October 10 in Oslo by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Peace Research Institute in Oslo, which each year guesses on potential winners, has the "Japanese People Who Conserve Article 9" as its top pick in an updated list on Friday. The group is working to keep Article 9, which prevents Japan from "belligerency," as part of the nation's constitution.

"We may have come to think of wars between states as virtually extinct after the end of the Cold War, but events in Ukraine and simmering tensions in East Asia remind us they may reappear," PRIO said. "A return to a principle often hailed in earlier periods of the Peace Prize would be well timed."

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Pope Francis is favoured to win the peace award by bookmakers William Hill and Paddy Power, with odds of 11-4 and 9-4, respectively. Since his election in March 2013, Francis, 77, has pleaded for a reduction of inequalities on a global basis, including in a message to this year's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Snowden, 31, who was nominated for the prize by two Norwegian lawmakers from the Socialist Left Party, could win for revealing secret surveillance programs by the US National Security Agency in 2013 even though the leaks remain controversial. Snowden, who was granted asylum by Russia as he faces prosecution in the US, has 10-1 odds to win at William Hill and 14-1 at Paddy Power.

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