Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the most extensive US global surveillance operations, was on Thursday awarded this year's German "Whistleblower Prize" worth USD 3,900 in absentia.
The whistleblower prize is awarded once in two years to honour persons, who "expose in public interest grave social injustices and dangerous developments for individuals and the society, democracy, peace and environment".
As an insider, Snowden "exposed the massive and unsuspecting surveillance and storage of e-mails, IP addresses as well as telephone and other communication data by US and western intelligence agencies."
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