NSA's goal is elimination of everyone's privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU.

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The NSA’s ultimate goal along with its UK partner, the GCHQ, is to eliminate individual privacy worldwide, journalist Glenn Greenwald has told an EU inquiry.

Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies before EU Parliament over NSA

Glenn Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection. He is participating in an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU citizens. Follow live updates here.

The inquiry was set up to discuss ratcheting up the security of the internet and telephone networks in the European Union.

Snowden is also expected to testify before the Civil Liberties Committee in January as part of the inquiry.

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Ex-Guardian journalist Greenwald testifies on NSA spying before EU parliament. LIVE UPDATES

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Greenwald, the former Guardian journalist known for publishing Edward Snowden’s leaks, is testifying before the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties and Home Affairs via video connection, contributing to an inquiry into the NSA’s surveillance on EU citizens.

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NSA analysts have access to 'powerful and invasive' search tools – Greenwald

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The disclosure of new information about the access by low-level analysts to private emails and phone calls of Americans will soon be revealed to public, said Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist, who was the first to report about the US National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs.

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