Vindicated by yesterday's court decision that NSA collection of metadata likely violates the Constitution, Edward Snowden has penned an open letter to the Brazilian government offering to help them combat U.S. spying in exchange for asylum.- Snowden shared his gripes about Washington-in the letter, published in Portuguese in Brazil's-Folha de S. Paulo-newspaper. The NSA and other spying agencies tell us that for our own "safety"-for Dilma's "safety," for Petrobras' "safety"-they have revoked our right to privacy and broken into our lives. Today, if you carry a cell phone in Sao Paolo, the NSA can and does keep track of your location: they do this 5 billion times a day to people around the world.



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