former US spy agency contractor is seen collecting the Sam Adams Award - a prize given to intelligence

professionals deemed to have taken a stand for integrity.

People all over the world are realising that these programmes don't make us more safe.

They hurt our economy. They hurt our country. They limit our ability to speak and think

and live and be creative, have relationships to associate freely. And they're going this

doesn't make us more safe, it makes us less safe. It puts us a risk of coming into conflict

with our own government, and there's a far cry between legal programmes, legitimate spying,

legitimate law enforcement, where it's targeted, it's based on reasonable suspicion, individualised

suspicion and warranted action. This sort of dragnet mass surveillance puts entire populations

under sort of an eye that sees everything, even when it's not needed.