Resetting the net: Snowden and surveillance

One year after Edward Snowden exposed the spying at the NSA, can the internet be re-set?

A year ago this month, former NSA worker Edward Snowden became the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. What tangible effects has the Snowden story had one year on?

Snowden’s revelations outraged many Americans, including members of Congress who drew up a law designed to rein in intelligence agencies, America has 18 of them, but pushback from the security establishment meant the bill that eventually passed was watered down to such an extent that privacy advocates dismissed it as a sham.