Remember the NSA? June 2013 was the month that changed the way we see the internetnetwork. Ήταν ο μήνας που ο Edward Joseph Snowden άρχισε να δίνει στον κόσμο λεπτομερείς περιγραφές για τα προγράμματα μαζικής επιτήρησης της NSA. 
Το σκάνδαλο που ξέσπασε έφερε πάρα πολλούς σε δύσκολη θέση. Η αρχική άρνηση της ευθύνης στην αρχή, μετά την συνεχιζόμενη διαρροή δεδομένων μετατράπηκε σε δικαιολογίες από υπηρεσίες, Companies tech and the US government, trying to reassure the online community.
In the end, there was the acceptance of responsibility by the NSA, which essentially stated that mass follow-up is being done for our sake as a self-appointed authority to protect the global community.
Since then, Congress has been trying to learn more about these NSA surveillance programs, and it seems it has not succeeded.
In a letter delivered yesterday to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, a team 14 lawmakers (eight Democrats and six Republicans) demanded to know how many Americans have had data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Article 702 is the legal justification for many of NSA's most invasive programs, such as PRISM that we know about its existence by 2013, but we still do not know what its scope is. So, Congress asked to learn.
Even before Snowden, congressional members were asking for details of how 702 is used. Of course NSA has never responded.
It is worth recalling that the last time Congress tried to make an intelligence service accountable for its actions, the CIA invaded literally in congressional Senators' computers, to a flagrant violation of democratic rules for which the service still has no impact.
The fact shows that the government bodies are no longer able to keep these services accountable for anything. They act as authoritarian regimes embedded in a nominally democratic state.
